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The most controversial film of 2012, Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty has received wide critical acclaim, as well as sharp criticism over its depiction of the CIA’s use of torture in their hunt for Osama Bin Laden.  This heated debate will continue to the Academy Awards, where the film is up for…

Five years ago, Ben Lien sat in pencil-scratched desks at MSUM as a political science student. On Jan. 8, the 2008 graduate stood behind a much fancier, wooden desk to get sworn in as a freshman member of the state House of Representatives. Across the domed capitol in the other chamber,…