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• Screen gems: What’s ahead in movies and on TV for the week of June 30

  The week ahead at the movies and on TV
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  MINIMUM WAGE

  Minimum wage: good intentions, bad policy

  BY JOSE AZEL

  Minimum wage laws are politically sacrosanct; politicians who argue against increasing the minimum wage commit political suicide. Voters believe that minimum wage laws are necessary to ensure that low-skilled workers, especially new entrants, teens and minorities, earn a living wage and are not exploited by greedy capitalists.
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  PAULA DEEN

  On Paula Deen, enough self pity already

  BY EUGENE ROBINSON

  Paula Deen needs to give the self-pity a rest. The damage to her carefully built image is self-inflicted — nobody threw a rock — and her desperate search for approval and vindication is just making things worse.
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  SUPREME COURT

  Supreme Court makes history — and forgets it, too

  BY JOAN VENNOCHI

  The Supreme Court makes history and it forgets history. It grants rights and it takes rights away — all in the same week.
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  GAY MARRIAGE

  Dana Milbank: Gays celebrate at Supreme Court

  BY DANA MILBANK

  The moment Justice Anthony Kennedy said the words — “Section 3 of DOMA is in violation of the Fifth Amendment” — a muffled cheer pierced the quiet in the Supreme Court chamber.
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  IMMIGRATION

  Why a border surge?

  BY ROBERT C. BONNER

  The U.S. immigration system is broken and in need of comprehensive reform. But the border-surge amendment proposed last week by Sens. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., and John Hoeven, R-N.D., and agreed to Monday — which would double the size of the Border Patrol and mandate an additional 700 miles of border fencing — is misguided and would be a great waste of taxpayer dollars.
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  EGYPT

  Watch for protests against Morsi in Egypt

  BY BRIAN SIEGAL

  Sunday could be a momentous day for Egypt, the most populous country in the Arab world. It is the first anniversary of the inauguration of President Mohamed Morsi, and his regime’s opponents are planning massive protests.
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  ABORTION DEBATE

  Legislative chaos over abortion debate in Texas

  BY GAIL COLLINS

  There is an old saying that Texas is “heaven for men and dogs, but hell for women and oxen.” But the state’s history is chock-full of stories of female role models. Barbara Jordan. Ann Richards. In downtown Austin, there’s a statue of Angelina Eberly, heroine of the Texas Archives War of 1842, firing a cannon and looking about 7 feet tall.
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  VOTING RIGHTS ACT

  Supreme Court’s voting rights ruling throws fuel on a new fire

  BY JOY-ANN REID

  Fifty years ago this month, Medgar Evers arrived at his home near Jackson, Miss., in the early morning hours of June 12. The evening before, President John F. Kennedy had delivered his landmark televised address to the nation, calling on Congress to pass legislation ensuring the civil and voting rights of black Americans. It was a tumultuous year — culminating in the seminal march on Washington later that summer and Kennedy’s assassination in November.
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  IRAN IN LATIN AMERICA

  Terror and foreign policy

  BY DOUGLAS FARAH AND MARK DUBOWITZ

  Earlier this month, Alberto Nisman of Argentina, the special prosecutor responsible for investigating the Iranian-planned 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people, handed down a chilling document detailing Iran’s hand in terrorist activities in Latin America and the United States. It shows that the use of terrorism as an instrument of foreign policy is an integral part of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s revolutionary DNA and that it is unlikely to change with Hassan Rouhani as president.
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  PHONE ADDICTION

  Addicted to phone use, even if it kills us

  BY MARGARET CARLSON

  We may soon have to endure extreme boredom at 30,000 feet as the once-friendly skies open to electronic devices and smartphones.
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  MIAMI HEAT

  Miami Heat: Bringing us together

  BY MICHAEL PUTNEY

  Let us now praise famous men — starting with the ones who play for the Heat. LeBron, Dwyane, Chris (we’re well past the need for last names) and all the rest, along with owner Micky, President Pat, Coach Spo and his staff.
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  THE INTERNET

  Internet brings historic shift in learning

  BY JEB BUSH and ROSARIO DAWSON

  The Internet isn’t just a powerful tool for communication. It’s arguably the most potent force for learning and innovation since the printing press. And it’s at the center of what is possibly America’s mightiest struggle and greatest opportunity: How to reimagine education for a transformative era.
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  COAST GUARD

  Coast Guard district commander bids farewell

  BY WILLIAM BAUMGARTNER

  On Wednesday, Rear Admiral Jake Korn will relieve me as the Coast Guard District Commander for the Southeast United States and the Caribbean — the Coast Guard’s busiest and most challenging region. At the same time, I will close out my 33-year Coast Guard career.

• BRAZIL PROTESTS

  Brazil’s protesters sick of corruption

  BY CARLOS ALBERTO MONTANER

  It’s an odd spectacle. Traditionally, Brazilians take to the streets only during Carnival. Now they do it to protest. What has happened?
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  MIAMI

  Help for Miami’s chronic homeless

  Miami and the many agencies dealing with the less fortunate are on the threshold of taking the next major step in our 20-year quest to end homelessness in our community. Working in unison, the time is right to reduce the last vestige of homeless in Miami: the chronic homeless, many of whom have been on the streets for multiple years, even multiple decades.
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  FLORIDA

  To grow economy: diversity, inclusion

  When it comes to taking care of business, the Florida Advisory Council on Small and Minority Business Development noted in an annual report that persistence, perseverance and simply doing the right thing are magic bullets for progress. Absent among the named magic bullets was budget.
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  GOVERNMENT SURVEILLANCE

  Secrecy, surveillance pose challenge to media

  BY EDWARD WASSERMAN

  In recent weeks, the gleaming Digital Age has been flipped over, exposing a dank underbelly of post-9/11 secrecy and surveillance reminiscent of a mid-20th-century police state, implicating not just government but Silicon Valley, too, in wide-ranging use and misuse of information.
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  PHILANTHROPY

  Don’t tamper with charitable deduction in tax code

  BY DAVID BIEMESDERFER AND JAVIER ALBERTO SOTO

  Federal lawmakers are heading into an intense period of political and policy debate about the budget, deficit reduction and tax reform. There is growing and urgent concern that elected officials are seriously considering unraveling a 100-year-old American tradition that encourages charitable giving and benefits millions of people. In jeopardy is the provision that allows taxpayers to deduct donations to charities.
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  ECONOMY

  Economic lessons from Latin America

  BY RICARDO VILLELA MARINO

  Coming out of one of the worst financial downturns since the Great Depression, we are still waiting for all of the pieces of the economic jigsaw puzzle to fall into place.

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