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While the presidential candidates will undoubtedly discuss immigration during the next two months, the real battle over policy may come on state ballots.

Here, an overview of some of the measures being considered.

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NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr comments about the legacy of investigations of impropriety from the Bush administration.

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How are you doing on getting a piece ready for the CultureShapers entry period- November 1st?

With a $5,000 first prize check awaiting the winner (six $5,000 checks) in each of six categories, don’t you think it’s worth your effort to give it a shot?

Even if you’re a freshman, get some experience in your first year, LEARN! But, msot importantly- CREATE! Whatcha got to lose?

On Sunday, September 14, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, the Brooklyn Literary Council and Brooklyn Tourism host the annual Brooklyn Book Festival, a huge, free event presenting an array of literary stars and emerging authors who represent the exciting world of literature today.

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Pang Brothers' partially sanitized remake of their own 1999 thriller is hardly philosophical — but it's style and its soul are more Asian than American, and it leaves some space for contemplation between the shootouts.

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The Gene Siskel Film Center presents Les Sixties, an eight-film celebration of the most exciting period in French film history—the era of the New Wave.

Featured are once divisive, now canonical, but still challenging masterpieces by Godard, Melville, Resnais, Truffaut, and Varda.

All films are being presented in recently struck 35mm prints.

Science fiction isn't typical source material for opera. Which is why Placido Domingo was a little surprised when The Fly landed on his desk.

But David Cronenberg and Howard Shore's opera opens Sept. 7 in Los Angeles.

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Trap Door Theatre in Chicago proudly presents the world premiere of the English translation of No Darkness Round My Stone by French Playwright Fabrice Melquiot.

A poet in spirit and practice, Melquiot's work is marked by noted lyricism and unpretentious accessibility.

In No Darkness Round my Stone, Melquiot gives us a comedic and empathetic look at the everyday life of grave robbers.

This week in Wasilla, Alaska, a woman named Anne Kilkenny sent a letter to some college friends about her former mayor, Sarah Palin.

By week's end, the letter was pinging around the country and the woman's phone was ringing off the hook.

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Gov. Sarah Palin has been strong supporter of programs that advocate abstinence until marriage and also opposes explicit sex education.

Alaska's law is silent on these issues, however, and it provides no specific funding for sex education in the schools.

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