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Tuesday, January 20, 2004

TV: While it was announced that Kerry and Edwards won in Iowa (Gephardt is out ... okay, now if Kucinich, Lieberman, and Sharpton would follow), I was watching an excellent movie on Court TV entitled Chasing Liberty. It starred Juliette Lewis (excellent in an atypical role) as a lawyer defending an asylum seeker from Afghanistan, but it made sure to focus enough on the latter to be a balanced account. Movies like this often tend to focus on the well off white person (often guy) and not the real story -- the person struggling against injustice. It was a fictionalized account but based on true events ... and I suggest people check it out, if they can.