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...thinks that. So obviously factors other than merit deserve our consideration when we decide for whom to vote. Starting with "Does he or she share my vision of the country?" (For example, "Will he appoint Justices less likely to cite bromides about color blindness as if that settled everything?") But beyond this, the President is unavoidably a symbol, and a presidential candidate's "essential qualities" include his or her race...
When asked, parents who withdrew their children from the system did not cite “not receiving a top choice school” as a major reason for leaving, but this could result from the fact that the reasons enumerated by withdrawn parents—the lack of a quality education, the lack of discipline, and poor teaching quality—are the very factors that had made the parents apply to other schools in the first place...
Like a lot of Administration supporters, Kagan sees both promise and peril in the coming months. He does not expect much clarity in the military situation by September, the date members of both parties increasingly cite as a make-or-break moment of the Administration in Iraq. Last week, hoping to quell expectations, White House officials sought to play down the significance of the September checkpoint, and Kagan echoed those cautionary words...
...Carlos Reygadas' name is rarely mentioned when journalists write about the new surge of Mexican cinema; they usually cite the three amigos: Alfonso Cuaron, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Guillermo Del Toro. Yet Reygadas, 36, has made the biggest noise at international film festivals and among the more intellectual critics. His Japon and Battle in Heaven won praise for their filmmaking rigor, caustic view of Mexico's social ills and often frank take on sex. With his competition film Stellet Licht (Silent Light), Reygadas shocks again: this drama of a Mennonite community in northern Mexico contains no explicit hanky-panky...
...CORRECTION: Two days after he'd returned to Rome, the Pope addressed the issue again, using a general audience to cite the "six million Jews" killed, and to explicitly condemn anti-Semitism...