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The East Market Street streetscaping project will be impressive when it is finished. For now it is a major pain to navigate.

Here is why choosing cartoons for our pages each day can be such an adventure: Among the numerous drawings I elected not to publish this week was one by former Greensboro resident Doug Marlette tying an image of the pope to the movie "The Exorcist." I am not making this up. The boundary between being clever and provocative and, well, something else altogether, is a treacherous place.

Letter writers seem increasingly perturbed with the businessmen who formed the Generals Brigade and apparently intend not to pay one cent of the $200,000 they owe the city on the hockey team deal. I can understand their outrage.

An AMC special Tuesday night explored Hollywood's reluctance to produce movie projects that deal with the Holocaust.

Notes Entertainment Weekly in a preview:

"Hollywood's relationship with Nazi Germany has been 'complicated' at best, shifting from tolerance to rage to postwar sublimation and finally to brutal exposure in film and TV miniseries (notably 1978's "Holocaust").

" 'Imaginary Witness' makes the point that while it might have taken time for entertainers to address the horrors visited upon the Jews, the greater issue is whether it should be considered entertainment at all."

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