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...most earnest and hopeful acceptance speech at the ceremony. But what made that moment so special was that it was so anti-Oscar. Indeed the rest of the ceremony left me entirely spent. I felt like Daniel Day-Lewis at the end of “There Will Be Blood??: completely exasperated, exhausted and left only to proclaim—spoiler alert!—“I’m finished.” Maybe next year Ganis and crew can take a cue from Hansard and Irglova. Tone down the ceremony a couple of notches...
...First, the authors no longer assert that Israeli “citizenship is based on the principle of blood kinship,” a charge that had prompted Harvard’s Dershowitz to declare that the “mendacious emphasis on Jewish ‘blood?? “might indicate that the professors had used “neo-Nazi propaganda” in their sourcing...
Scientists at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) have identified a correlation between high levels of urate—a naturally occurring antioxidant found in blood??and a lower risk of Parkinson’s disease, according to a study published online last month in The American Journal of Epidemiology...
Part of it could be a misguided effort to divorce themselves from their slave-owning past—an unsubtle attempt at historical revisionism. But more important is the emphasis on maintaining a “pure” tribe of Indians by blood??the insecure, marginalized community striking out at its own marginalized minority. The Cherokees’ concern with preserving their culture and heritage enables their most vocal members to play on tribal fears...
...also a matter of money: The Cherokee benefit from a $350 million yearly grant from the federal government and, with no freedmen around, there is more left for “pure blood?? Indians...