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Human Rights

Freedom By Contract

Marriage between a Muslim man and woman is not a sacrament but a contract. This means that every Muslim woman has the right, given to her by her religion, to frame the cond...

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Alternative Entertainment

10 Story High Mural Of Muddy Waters Goes Up In Chicago

If you find yourself near State and Washington streets in Chicago, look up and you'll see a mural of bluesman Muddy Waters rising 10 stories high. It was painted, the Chica...

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Festivals

Second Scout Film Festival Hits Stowe This Weekend

Those darned whippersnappers and their smartphones and television screens! Don’t they know that back in the day, we read books for entertainment! We went out and play...

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Hollywood

More Than 100 Authors Sign Greenpeace's Pledge for Free Speech and Forest Protection

More than 100 authors from around the world, including Nobel Prize winner John Maxwell Coetzee (Disgrace); writer and comedian Stephen Fry (More Fool Me); Man Booker Prize ...

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Bollywood

Amitabh, Anushka To Launch Narendra Modi Govt's 'Darwaza Band' Campaign To Make India Open Defecation Free

Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan and actress Anushka Sharma will on Tuesday launch the Narendra Modi government's `Darwaza Band` campaign aimed at making India open def...

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Festivals

Corks Film Festival Brings Cinema To Cork City Central Library All Year Round

The Cork Film Festival will be the first Irish festival to pilot a new European-wide project to bring festival films to public libraries. One of only seven festivals across...

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Gender

Helen Mirren On Why She Resisted Calling Herself A Feminist At First

Though Helen Mirren emphatically calls herself a feminist now, she admits she's resisted the term in the past. Making the commencement speech at Tulane University in New Or...

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Festivals

Hot Docs Announces Awards, Human Rights Watch Festival Unveils Lineup

The Human Rights Watch Film Festival will be presented June 9 – 18, with 21 topical and provocative feature documentaries and panel discussions that showcase courageo...

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Environment

The Uncertain Fate Of The Worlds Most Important Freezer

In 2008, the Svalbard Global Seed Trust was heralded as one of the greatest inventions of the year. Located on a remote island in the Svalbard archipelago, halfway between ...

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Hollywood

Dancer Ed Mocks 'Unstoppable Feat' Chronicled In New Documentary

“‘Pioneer’ — I have trouble with that word,” says Brontez Purnell, sitting in the sunny backyard of his West Oakland home and grasping for the...

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