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...racism.” Rather, he focuses on how playing the race card ignores more substantive social goals.“Contested Goals,” his next chapter, reaches the same conclusions as the one that comes before it, making it slightly superfluous. Once again he reiterates his belief that integration should be an essential goal for the current civil rights movement and that it all too often gets obscured by debates over quotas and themed college housing.Unfortunately, “The Race Card” doesn’t tell us how any of these goals should...
...boys quite literally said nothing—they’ve yet to release a forth album—but it seems as though his words are beginning to be reflective of the contemporary creative condition. Today’s music scene is one in which belief in the revolutionary potential of a song is viewed as an anachronistic pipedream and faith in rockstardom as a transcendent force is regarded as both naïve and haplessly nostalgic. This thoroughly postmodern sentiment is both the fate and the challenge of the up-and-coming artist. How can today?...
...actions of Britain's present Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, when he became Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1997, was to remove the task of bank supervision from the Bank of England and entrust it to the agency responsible for the regulation of U.K. financial markets - perhaps under the erroneous belief that financial regulation and bank supervision were much the same thing. In fact, they are fundamentally different. In any event, although Northern Rock was pursuing a conspicuously high-risk business strategy, which enabled it to increase its share of the mortgage market very substantially, the new regulator proved...
...does the movie end? Possibly with a long shot of Bill Clinton - his once shaggy hair now an aura of white - driving down a lonely East Texas road. He was born not far from there, across the state line in Arkansas, and from 1972 onward, he has nursed the belief that he might somehow reconnect the working-class whites of that region to the Democratic Party. Scant luck so far. But he was still at it in advance of the Texas vote, stumping through places like Tyler and Lufkin and Texarkana and Nacogdoches - proving that the Clintons still believe...
...Subsequent media outcry in Britain has painted a picture of the deplorably low tolerance some nations have for religious ideas. It has revealed a rigid conformity to secularism, a sense of blind nationalism and a lamentable distrust of the other belief systems...