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...LIFE OF DAVID GALE. Kevin Spacey stars as Professor David Gale, an anti-death penalty crusader accused of murdering a fellow activist (Laura Linney) in this issue movie from Alan Parker (Angela’s Ashes). Once Gale reaches death row, he gives his side of the story to an ambitious reporter (Kate Winslet). The film’s trio of Oscar darlings and hot social topic should lend some class and relevance, respectively, to the reportedly twist-heavy story. The Life of David Gale screens...
...wanted to show my support for the strike at Yale as a student and a labor activist, and I wanted to see exactly what was going on down there,” he said. “I wanted to see how big things were—and things were big. It seems like the whole school’s on strike...
Chomsky was joined by Leonida Zurita Vargas, the leader of a women’s peasant movement in Bolivia; Carolina Contreras, a socially active Somerville High School sophomore; Mel King, a former Massachusetts state representative; and Lev Grossman-Spivack, a Boston University junior who creates activist lyrics and poetry, at the forum, entitled “Another World is Possible?...
...social agenda. "It's about what you do if you're different. How do you make society better? Do you try to destroy it, or change it? And, aptly for today, there is the question of when is it right to fight?" McKellen, a veteran gay-rights activist, has his own wars still to wage. He's furious that Prime Minister Tony Blair has not delivered on his promise to repeal Section 28 of the 1988 Local Government Act, which prohibits state schools from teaching that homosexuality is not offensive, in his first Parliament. "As a public figure I have...
...LIFE OF DAVID GALE. Kevin Spacey stars as Professor David Gale, an anti-death penalty crusader accused of murdering a fellow activist (Laura Linney) in this issue movie from Alan Parker (Angela’s Ashes). Once Gale reaches death row, he gives his side of the story to an ambitious reporter (Kate Winslet). The film’s trio of Oscar darlings and hot social topic should lend some class and relevance, respectively, to the reportedly twist-heavy story. The Life of David Gale screens...