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Review of “Contagion”

Evanston RoundTable, Sept. 27, 2011 Steven Soderbergh’s movie “Contagion” manages to do for global pandemics what porn does for sex: make it look phony. Not that there aren’t the requisite

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Review of J. Edgar

Evanston RoundTable, Nov. 22, 2011 He built one of the nation’s most important law-enforcement agencies, routed the Bolsheviks and anarchists in the 1920s, jailed scores of gun-toting mobsters in the

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Saturdays With Milton

Milton Preves was my viola teacher during the mid- to late 1990s. At some point during our relationship, realizing what a treasure he was to the international viola community, I

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Hobi the Wonder Dog

Evanston RoundTable, August 3, 2011 Hobi, the Wonder Dog When Michelle Milne first met her Golden Retriever-Black Lab mix, in the spring of 2009, the furry black puppy jumped into

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