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...make a speech. That leaves Crash. It's the most Hollyuwood kind of indie picture: amazingly low-budgeted (about $5 million), serious to the point of solemnity, and with a cast of top stars doing charity work: smallish roles in a film with big, social ambitions. The actors' branch of the Acaademy is the largest, and they may have an itch to reward the kind of film that makes actors look good...
...comes from the timing of the vote on Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, who is widely expected to cruise to confirmation over increasingly impotent Democratic resistance. Republican Senators will take the floor this week citing a wide range of bipartisan Alito supporters from academia, the judiciary and the executive branch. And far from winning over moderate Republicans, Democrats seem to be losing their own centrists. Democratic leadership aides say they expect Senators Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Bill Nelson of Florida to vote for Alito, joined by Kent Conrad and Byron Dorgan of North Dakota. Blanche Lincoln of Nebraska...
...excerpt from Taylor Branch's biography of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. [Jan. 9] was superb. It helped show the personal side of the man. I disagree, however, with Jesse Jackson, who in TIME's forum, "What If He Were Alive Today?", said that King would be challenging the war in Iraq. I think King would be less concerned about U.S. actions in Iraq than about seeing the failure of his dream of social justice and equality in this country. The U.S. now seems even more inclined than it was in King's day to treat people differently just because...
...punished at Harvard for your race or sexuality. So it was the best of times, and it was the worst of times. Among the worst, because some administrators still don’t get that they’re running an open-minded university, not a business or a branch of the government. Among the best, because students are actually paying attention and holding people in power accountable.Mass. Hall insiders may be up for some more lessons in respect and social responsibility this spring. Let’s hope we see them in section. Michael Gould-Wartofsky...
...tried lining our windows and floors with the pies before concluding that: 1) pizza is not a good sound insulator; and 2) we were meant to eat it. The project team may want to invest in a little more image research. Though to them, pizza is an oily olive branch, it doesn’t represent the same thing to everyone. Pizza is a symbol rooted in sorrow and conflict. East River-ites associate pizza with the smell of tomato sauce and broken scapulae, especially after trying to get their hands on a slice when the project team delivered them...