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November 10, 2004
Arts £rt>Entertainn
produce are available for all to
enjoy. Presented by Rasmussen
Farms, this amusing event is enter
taining for all ages. Fall craft and
decorating ideas are demonstrated,
as well. Pumpkin Funland is open
from 9 a.m.-6 p.m. For more details,
please call (541) 386-4622.
To generate the patriotic mood,
photographic artist Sebastian
Garrido-Bor has invented a unique
way of showing his vision from the
events of 9/11 with “Between
Patriotism and Fanaticism.” His
inspiring works are a must-see for
’ any art fan. Located at 1120 SW 5th
Avenue in Portland, this event is
open Monday through Friday from
7 a.m.-6 p.m. Admission is free, and
i this event goes through to Nov. 29.
Of course a great way to spend
Veteran’s Day is to take a few min
utes to show support towards all
veterans who sacrificed their lives
for our nation. All graveyards
^.around the area will be open for
( memorial purposes. Wave the .
Honor our
veterans
Remember that the college
will be closed tomorrow,
Nov. 11, in observance of
Veterans* Day,
Correspondence shows lack of
separates
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child porn
I Cory Price
I A&E Editor
There is a movie that no one
should have to sit through; one that
defies all moral code, making it a
guarantee on the low ten of movies.
“Birth” features Nicole Kidman
who plays a neurotic woman
(Anna) who is a young widow
about to be engaged when a 10-
year old boy (Sean) played by
Cameron Bright comes into her
life. Sean states that he is the rein
carnation of her husband. Anna
becomes obsessed with this idea,
causing an unsettling concern in
her fiancee, Joseph (Danny
Huston). Why would a grown man
be jealous of a child?
Well, halfway into the movie,
after meeting the boy a few times, it
cuts to a scene with Anna enjoying
a lovely bath. Enter Sean. He strips
to his birthday to suit and joins the
naked Ann in the bathtub. This is
more disturbing than someone
doing a Martin Short impression.
When one thinks it couldn’t get
more disturbing than that, we cut to
another seen just a few minutes
later. Anna and her fiancee are
having their pre-wedding party.
Anna invites Sean to the party with
the hope of showing him that there
is no chance of her “hooking up”
with him, when Joseph gets fed up
with the kid and gives him a spank
ing.
As the kid runs out of the party
Anna pursues him, meeting Sean
on the street. What can happen?
Oh yeah, they kiss, full on the lips.
That pretty much meant the end of
movie for me, so I left.
So let’s review: random naked
bathtub scene? KCheck. Nasty
make-out session on the street?
Check. This movie has all the
qualities needed for child pom.
Cameron Bright plays the
creepy 10-year-old Sean.
I James Tombe
I The Clackamas Print
What
makes
Michael
Moore’s new book, “Will They
Ever. Trust Us Again?” most
engaging is not the anti-Bush
and antiwar
rhetoric one
would expect
from a book
by Moore; it’s
the fact that
most of the
material
comes from
soldiers and
veterans
themselves.
As Moore
puts
it,
“[T]hey are
not the words
of the Left or
the rhetoric of
the
antiwar
movement—
they are the
war
move
ment.”
“Will They
Ever Trust Us
Again?” is a collection of let
ters and emails written to
Moore in response to the Iraq
War and his movie “Fahrenheit
911.” It’s a fairly easy read,
being composed almost entire
ly of correspondence.
To be fair, it’s difficult for
the discerning reader to verify
the veracity of the letters in
which the writer adopts a pseu
donym, but there are several
valid points made regardless
of the identity
of the writers.
“Mark,”
a
former
Special
Forces sol
dier, wrote, “I
think I’ll give
my vote to
the social
ists. When
you’re
a
natural-bom
citizen
of
the United
States and
you’re jeal
ous
of
Canada or
France,
well,
you
know some-
thing’s
Internet Photo
wrong.”
Although
many of the letters from sol
diers are powerful, the most
poignant entries come from
the home-front.
“News bites are not reali
ty,” wrote Danta Zappala on
SPOT THE TEACHER
IN THIS PICTURE.
It’s just as difficult to spot Army National Guard members in their
civilian jobs as it is here in the field. That’s because Guard men and
women are citizen-soldiers, woven into the fabric of the communities they
serve.
Most Guard members serve just one weekend a month and two weeks
a year while pursuing full-time careers. They serve for many reasons:
money for college, tuition assistance, skills training, an extra paycheck
and other military benefits. For some, it’s a way to give back to their
country and community.
And even though they’re sometimes hard to see, they’ll be there for
you when you need them. If you or someone you
Oregon
know would like to learn more,
call today
I -800-GO-GUARD
www. I -800-GO-GUARD.com
the truth behind war. “Political
grandstanding is not reality.
Reality is when your sister-in-
law calls you to tell you her
husband is dead. Reality is
trying to explain this to his
nine-year-old son.”
The book ends with a letter
from Abdul Henderson, a
marine whose refusal to return
to Iraq was featured in
“Fahrenheit 911.”
“No soldier ever dies in
vain in war, if it is justified or
not,” he wrote. “A soldier’s
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