Also, in a one-page letter released Thursday, the group's 50 American Nobel laureates urged President Clinton not to go ahead with the planned shield.

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In "The East, " about an anarchist collective that plots revenge on corporate entities it feels are harming the environment and public health, Ms. Page's character, Izzy, is wounded in one of the group's targeted attacks.

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