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by Christopher Kelly [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[8.May.07] :. He’s probably best known for playing Nate Fisher, the eternally angsty funeral home director who struggled to hold his dysfunctional family together on “Six Feet Under.” Indie-movie...

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The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid

by Rachel Smucker

[6.Apr.07] :. Hamid gives us the actions, we create the motives.

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The Road to Guantánamo (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Jan.07] :. While the movie has been termed a "docudrama" for its mix of reenactments, interviews, and archival news footage, it is not nearly so easy or easygoing about "truth" as such a label suggests. The film's complex form corresponds to its story, in the sense that "truth" is precisely what troubles it.

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