The code breakers

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The Da Vinci Code, a novel about a Harvard symbology professor, embroiled in a murder mystery, is a combination of thriller, religious manifests and art-history lecture. Columbia Pictures release a movie based on the novel in May 2006,starring Tom Hanks, and its director Ron Howard says that there is no softening of the story's controversial elements and their liking for the book inspired them to make a movie.

Criticism and interpretation, Detective and mystery stories, Mystery fiction, The Da Vinci Code (Novel)

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The voices of dissent: not everyone wants to hear it, but not everyone is behind the war. Three writers refuse to get with the program

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While the majority favor the war against terror being waged in Afghanistan, several writers have spoken out against the military action, including John le Carre, Alan Gurganus, Alice Walker, Susan Sontag, Barbara Kingsolver, and Arundhati Roy. These writers continue their moral and practical dissent in editorial pieces by questioning American military policy.

United States, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Military policy, Dissenters, Sontag, Susan, Afghanistan Conflict, 2001-, Roy, Arundhati, Kingsolver, Barbara

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