1992
First Word: Votes for Immigrants
With all the emphasis on registering voters in this election year isn't it time to look at the validity of granting voting rights to the hundreds of thousands of Permanent Residents living in the United States? One could argue that regardless of legal status, one should be allowed to vote if one can prove long-term residency or prove that one has paid one's taxes. The … [Read more...] about First Word: Votes for Immigrants
July/August 1992
Blazes Boylan
Compiled by Brian Rohan July August 1992
"Patriot Games" Controversies Arise When Paramount Pictures was putting together what it expected to be its big summer movie blockbuster, Patriot Games, the only controversies it encountered was the casting of Harrison Ford as the leading man over earlier choice Alec Baldwin, and trying to reconcile the movie's screenwriters with Tom Clancy, the author of the novel on which … [Read more...] about Blazes Boylan
The Irish Experience in Australia
Thomas Keneally is widely-recognized for a wide body of work of a historical and political nature, including The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith, which explores differences between the white and Aboriginal cultures. Confederates examined the consequences of the American Civil War on a group of individuals; Schindler's List looks at the Holocaust. And in To Asmara he focused on the … [Read more...] about The Irish Experience in Australia