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Movie Review

Cookie's Fortune

"You know how come I know he didn't do it?" says Lester Boyle (Ned Beatty), a deputy police officer in Holly Springs, Mississippi, the small town turned upside down at the heart of Robert Altman's new film, "Cookie's Fortune." "Because I fished with him." That's the kind of town Holly Springs is--the kind where a police officer can defend his friend against murder charges, even though there's pil ... ...

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    The American Society of Civil Engineers 2013 report card on America’s infrastructure says it succinctly. The grade the ASCE gives for our deteriorating roads, dams, bridges, water and sewer systems, aviation, and other infrastructure components is a resounding … "D." That means the facilities studied are in poor shape, and worse, that they place many Americans at ...

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