Mon Oct 27, 2008
SAJAforum: Malaysia bans HINDRAF for “promoting extremism”
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Sun Oct 12, 2008
SAJAforum: Bollywood Outsources … from New York to Philadelphia
After years of filming scenes in New York, Bollywood is now outsourcing. According to a Greater Philadelphia Film Office spokesperson, an Indian film production team is currently using Philadelphia as a “stunt double” for a film set in the Big Apple:
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Fri Oct 10, 2008
SAJAforum: Rekha Basu on John McCain’s Meeting with the Des Moines Register’s Editorial Board
Last Tuesday, Sen. John McCain met with the editorial board of the Des Moines Register in a bid to once again obtain the paper’s endorsement. (In December, shortly before the Iowa caucuses, the Register endorsed McCain and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton to be the nominees of their respective parties.) As news outlets widely reported, and as you can see for yourself in the video to the right, the interview at times became somewhat contentious.
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Tue Oct 7, 2008
SAJAforum: Temple grad student on “gotcha journalism” and his exchange with Sarah Palin over Pakistan
A couple of weekends ago, Gov. Sarah Palin made headlines for her informal exchange, while ordering cheesesteaks in Philadelphia at Tony Luke’s, with a Temple University graduate student about Pakistan:
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