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Mr. Tolbert, a high school dropout, went on to play a central role in an early effort to improve the way that blacks were portrayed on film.
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CANNES (Reuters) - An avenging Venus settling the psychological and sexual score is the star of acclaimed director Roman Polanski's "La Venus a la Fourrure" ("Venus in Fur"), one of the Cannes film festival's two final movies in main competition to premiere on Saturday.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's highest court ruled on Saturday that parts of a revised election law setting out terms for a parliamentary election were unconstitutional, casting fresh doubt over a poll that has already been delayed. The Islamist-dominated upper house of parliament had approved the law...(more)
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MOSCOW (AP) — Gay rights campaigners and their opponents clashed at an unsanctioned rally in Moscow but a heavy police presence in Ukraine kept the two sides apart at a demonstration which went ahead despite a court order.
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The I-5 bridge that got clipped by a truck and fell into the Skagit River in Washington State may have been old, its design officially “functionally obsolete.” But the temporary fix to get traffic moving again along this busy highway corridor linking Seattle north to Canada...(more)
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LONDON (AP) — British police say a zookeeper who was injured in a tiger attack at an animal park has died.
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By Jason Bush MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian police detained around 30 pro- and anti-gay activists in central Moscow on Saturday, imposing the city's ban on gay rights demonstrations. The arrests, underlining Russia's tough response to public demonstrations by gay groups, coincided with the first ever gay...(more)
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As if the Sydney Opera House wasn't already striking to behold, a group of Australian artists called "The Spinifex Group" have made it even wilder. As part of Sydney's "Vivid" festival—which started on Friday—the Opera House will be home to a crazy projected light-show for...(more)
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Part gossip, part handicapping, part pure racing fandom, W. C. Vreeland’s columns made horses into celebrities and readers into racing insiders.
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A federal judge has ruled that the office of America's self-proclaimed toughest sheriff systematically singled out Latinos in its trademark immigration patrols, marking the first finding by a court that the agency racially profiles people.
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TRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) - The death toll in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli reached 25 on Saturday in the seventh straight day of clashes between factions supporting opposing sides in Syria's two-year civil war, security sources said. Residents heard sounds of rocket-propelled grenades and sniper fire...(more)
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Exhibition, called Unfold, aims to merge culture and science to provoke climate debate in ChinaWith its greenhouse gas emissions continuing to soar and environmental concerns a hot topic, China is perhaps the perfect venue for a different way of looking at the issue of climate change...(more)
