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“I am depressed … I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings and corpses and anger and pain … of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen, often police, of killer executioners…I have gone to join Ken if I am that lucky.”
Those were the words left in the suicide note of Kevin Carter, the [...]

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So apparently students in the Halton School district are no longer subject to pesky things like deadlines.
This is what I learned a couple days ago through Lorraine Sommerfeld’s column in the Toronto Star. Her piece, suitably titled “Memo to schools: Even Blockbuster has due date”, highlighted a new policy enacted by the Halton School Board [...]

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A couple nights ago Entertainment Tonight did a whole segment on deceased movie star Heath Ledger. But instead of highlighting his career successes, the entire segment focused on a videotape they planned to air which showed Ledger getting a high at a drug party in Hollywood. Now I know that the media thrives on [...]

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