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The Impeachinator

Watchdog Fein
From Caligula to Bush...er Obama: Bruce Fein watches them all.
By HARVEY SILVERGLATE  |  November 24, 2008
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The PTech connection?


Between late 2002 and early 2003, the now defunct Fleet Bank in Boston attracted the attention of federal anti-terrorist investigators.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN  |  November 24, 2008
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Secret-agent meh

NBC’s Chuck is a concept in search of a show
Though Chuck is programmed as a comic-action hybrid, it doesn’t do either particularly well.  
By RYAN STEWART  |  October 21, 2008
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Body of Lies

Another forgettable thriller
For a film dealing with Intelligence, Body of Lies has little enough of its own.  
By BRETT MICHEL  |  October 16, 2008
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McCain’s crooked talk on torture

Critics, including a local former army interrogator, say he’s trying to play both sides of the issue
It might surprise some that McCain’s record in opposing torture and the Bush administration’s terror-war approach is more complicated than his comments suggest.
By IAN DONNIS  |  September 18, 2008
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Light Reading

The Coen Brothers have talent to Burn
Every now and then so-called independent filmmakers have to make money and prove to the studios that they have some traction at the box office.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  September 09, 2008
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Autumn peeves

Films with a full agenda
With pundits already reading political significance into summer blockbusters like The Dark Knight (“Is Batman a stand-in for George Bush? Discuss.”), the meatier movies of fall arrive not a moment too soon.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  September 11, 2008
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Olympian anti-heroes

Sports blotter: Olympic edition
Greetings, Olympic sports fans!
By MATT TAIBBI  |  August 08, 2008

William Lemmer: Coming home

The further history of a Vietnam-era informer
This article originally appeared in the July 11, 1978 issue of the Boston Phoenix.
By JEFFREY STEIN  |  July 10, 2008
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Repression illustrated

People’s history in graphic format
Graphic novels are an acquired taste.
By CLIF GARBODEN  |  July 01, 2008
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Intelligence deficit

Bush fooled voters and the press once on Iraq. Can McCain get away with the same thing?
The American press and public rarely get riled up these days over new revelations concerning President George W. Bush and his administration’s sorry history.
By EDITORIAL  |  June 11, 2008

Campaign spying is an old, old game

Ward 8
This article originally appeared in the May 22, 1973 issue of the Boston Phoenix.
By MARTIN LOMANSEY JR.  |  May 22, 2008
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Bad seeds?

Errol Morris checks the apples, not the tree, in Standard Operating Procedure
For Errol Morris, film doesn’t show reality, it organizes it in an attempt at arriving at the truth.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  April 30, 2008
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Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?

Nobody knows
Last time we saw documentarian Morgan Spurlock, he was downing McDonald’s fries in Supersize Me.
By TOM MEEK  |  April 16, 2008
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Running toward truth

A fast-paced spy thriller explores the ambiguities of wartime
The first wave of current-war fiction is washing up on American shores, and Alex Carr’s The Prince of Bagram Prison is a prime example.
By DEIRDRE FULTON  |  April 09, 2008
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Crunch time for Obama and Hillary

Advertising time slots offers a preview of the results
If you are a believer in omens — you no doubt picked up on the portent of Billary and Barack’s recent prime time TV buys in the Biggest Little .
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE  |  February 27, 2008
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Documentary evidence

‘War Stories’ and Maori tattoos, plus the SMFA’s ‘Traveling Scholars’
The theme of MassArt’s “War Stories” is what we talk about when we talk about war — the Iraq War in particular.
By GREG COOK  |  February 27, 2008

All hail Obama

Letters to the Boston editor, February 22, 2008
We need someone who can unite the Democratic Party, let alone the Union. That candidate is Barack Obama.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS  |  February 20, 2008
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Taxi to the Dark Side

Torture in the shadows
In 2002, an Afghani jitney driver named Dilawar took off with two customers and disappeared.
By GERALD PEARY  |  February 06, 2008
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The Oscars go to Hell

The Devil knows what the nominations will be for this year’s Oscars
Maybe it’s just as well if the writers’ strike forces a cancellation of the Oscars show.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  January 18, 2008

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