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- Major Hasan's Alienation
Pat Lang reads deep - Death panels exist!!!
They're called insurers - I remember embassies
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August in Rome w/Mamma - Pazar - Bir ticaret masali
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Welcome, The Visitor, Eden à l'ouest - Aruitemo aruitemo - Still Walking
Honor your parents - Dans la brume électrique
James Lee Burke & Bertrand Tavernier - Katanga Business
The "beeznis" of greed - La Graine et le Mulet
Integrated immigrants - Leonera - Lion's Den
Motherhood & prison - Snow - Snijeg
Postwar Bosnia - Three Monkeys - Üç maymun
Be careful what you ask for - Tulpan
Kazakh sailor/suitor - Doubt
Sister said - The Wrestler
Slam dunk - O' Horten, begorra
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Surmounting childhood - Il Divo
Mr. Italy - Drying Up Palestine
Israel's long straw - Who Killed the Electric Car?
General Motors, primarily - Home, Rumba, El Dorado
Francophone "road movies" - L'Ennemi Intime - The Intimate Enemy
France in Algeria, echoes of "Platoon" - W, and Being W
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