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...Hurt) who a generation earlier fathered and abandoned a child out of wedlock must pay for his age-old sin when the son (Gael Garcia Bernal) shows up. And in Von Trier's Manderlay, set in Alabama in the 1930s, an idealistic young woman (Bruce Dallas Howard) tries to confront and cure the lingering disease of slavery...
...terrible things happened all the time and they were in the thick of it, and they managed to feed their kids and get them to school and the days went fast and yet she was lonely, unbearably lonely," Dean writes with an Ulster lilt. Meanwhile, the earnest Dunn must confront a grown son he didn't know he had, and is haunted by the sound of his prisoners talking late at night: "There was something ghastly about it; it was like listening to the voices of men who'd died together, trapped in the hull of a boat...
Leah H. Pillsbury ’07, treasurer of HCIC and a member of Hillel, said that volunteering together encouraged dialogue and gave students the opportunity to confront each other with questions about their different faiths...
...plan was killed 10 years ago, and she was clearly pained-nonplussed by the quality of anger, the sheer hatred, directed against her. That experience would be a walk in the park compared to the vitriol if she ran for President. And while I'd love to see someone confront, and defeat, the free-range haters on the right, the last thing we need is a campaign that would polarize the nation even more. Indeed, we could use the exact opposite-a candidate who would inspire America's centrist majority to rise up against the extreme special interests in both...
...commend TIME for its outstanding article on America's top five large-city mayors [April 25]. Too often we must confront the unethical or outright illegal conduct of our politicians. Those five individuals truly represent what it is to be a public servant by putting the needs of their constituents above their own. I am particularly impressed with mayors who voluntarily cut their salaries at a time when our representatives seem to be giving themselves big pay raises and our schools and the infrastructure crumble from lack of funding. Please continue to highlight true American heroes...