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Rebels on the Backlot: Six Maverick Directors and How They Conquered the Hollywood Studio System
This book grew out of Waxman's Hollywood coverage for the Washington Post. It examines a new, young generation of Hollywood directors in the 1990s. The book explores how the new artists adapt to the money-driven culture of Hollywood, and how the change affects their personal stake in the movie industry.
Tags: movies; entertainment; Hollywood; film; directors; actors
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Rebel With a Plan: Welcome to Planning 101
"This story delves into the psyche of a Los Angeles city councilman who is trying to get his colleagues to adopt an affordable housing policy known as inclusionary zoning. It examines the roles the councilman's upbringing, professional experience and personal grudges play in promulgating a complex policy..."
Tags: real estate; development; urban planning; commuters; immigration; Latinos; racism; discrimination
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Warrior Class
This is an in-depth report on the US troops and their efforts to counter terrorism. The article looks at the US troops in Colombia, fighting the armed rebels in the country. The reporter covers the activities of the Special Forces in their efforts to train the Colombian troops.
Tags: US Troops; Defense; war against terrorism; counter terrorism; special forces
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Investigating Sierra Leone
Last summer, the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone indicted Charles Taylor, then president of Liberiann fir crimes allegedly committed during the civil war in neighboring Sierra Leone. It was only the second time a head of state had been indicted for international war crimes while in office. Prosecutors alleged Taylor was a central figure in a global criminal network that controlled rebels in Sierra Leone who committed murder, enslavement, rape and forced children into combat. American Radio Works journalists Deborah George and Michael Montgomery closely follow the work of investigators and prosecutors as they developed the cases against Taylor and other warlords. The Special Court was established last year in a treat between the UN and the Sierra Leone government and uses a mix of national and international law.
Tags: war; sierra leone; charles taylor; All Things Considered; radio; broadcast; CD; tape
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A Colombian village caught in a crossfire
The LA Times investigates a 1998 controversial bombing of a Colombian village, in which 18 people were killed. The report finds that U.S. military help played a role in the tragedy. The story refutes the Colombian military's version that the bombing was actually a premature detonation of a car bomb planted by rebels, and finds the prosecutors' charge -- that a Colombian air force helicopter actually dropped the bomb -- to be more credible. Other findings are that U.S. Customs planes, tracking a plane supposedly filled with drugs, helped initiate the bombing; two American companies provided supplies and help to the Colombian military on the day of the operation; the bombing site was under aerial surveillance of a U.S. Coast Guard officer.
Tags: FOI; FBI; human rights; drug war; military aid; Alien Tort Claims Act
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Gunrunners
PBS Frontline broadcasts a Center for Investigative Reporting report on arms smuggling. The story details illegal arms shipments from eastern Europe to rebels in Africa and failed international efforts to curtail the smuggling. The investigation also sheds light on the activities of Leonid Minin, a trafficker linked to Russian and Ukrainian organized crime.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; Sierra Leone; Liberia; crime; wars; United Nations sanctions; Vadim Rabinovich
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Gunrunners
This 8-minute radio report was part of year-long investigation into the illegal global small arms trade. The investigation details several illegal arms shipments from organized crime groups in eastern Europe to rebel forces fighting for diamonds in Africa. The report focused on thew supplier-side of the illegal gunrunning to soldiers in Sierra Leona and its neighbors.
Tags: Sierra Leone; gunrunners; illegal trade; Africa; Cold War; UN; ammunition; trafficking; TAPE; RADIO; transcript
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Medical Rebels
Public discontent with corporate medicine continues to grow and healthcare professionals have been crossing the line into subtly and overtly illegal acts--from manipulation of the system and defiance of laws they deem unjust to fraud and threats of violence--in defense of their patients.
Tags: healthcare workers; public health professionals; managed-care industry; healthcare professionals; HMOs; lawbreaking
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Phillips in Africa: Coltan (Colombite Tantalite); Zimbabwe business grab
CBS News reports on the Congo civil war. The first part of the investigation finds that the efforts to stop the war have failed, "in part because Western companies are helping pay for it." Coltan, a mineral essential for the production of computer chips and high-tech devices, has kept the war going because African governments, middlemen and rebels have become "interested in loot as much as politics." The second segment reports on a land dispute in Zimbabwe, which has caused racial conflicts. The threats to white farmers and business-owners have forced some of them to try to escape to South Africa.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; Rwanda; democracy; political instability; foreign affairs; international reporting; business
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Russian Mob Trading Arms for Cocaine with Colombian Rebels
MSNBC.com "was the first to uncover a scandal that would ultimately lead to the ouster of Peru's President Alberto Fujimori." The reporters found that "guns had made their way to a variety of groups in the region, spreading Colombia's war across borders to Ecuador."
Tags: CD; drugs; drug trade; Ecuador; mob; Colombian rebels