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Politicians don't give speeches like the one Barack Obama delivered this morning at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. Certainly presidential candidates facing the biggest crisis of their campaigns don't. At moments like these - when circumstances force them to confront and try to defuse a problem that threatens to undermine their campaigns - politicians routinely seek to clarify, diminish and then dispose of the problem. They play down the conflict, whatever it is, then attempt to cut themselves off from it and move on, hoping the media and electorate will do the same. What they...
...even the most ardent skeptic or even atheist—to whom this tolerant regime agnostic to moral or religious questions might first seem appealing—must confront difficulty when this “tolerance” applies to sects not historically seeped in such cultural relativism...
...nature of bruising national politics. However, when we as unbiased political observers say that Geraldine Ferraro seems a hypocrite and a bigot in making these conspiratorial accusations about not one black politician, but all of them, we would appear to be justified by factual evidence. After all, these men confront the same sort of barrier to entry that she came upon two decades ago. One could argue that theirs is even higher...
authors who would rather confront this...
...project was clearly a challenge. For one thing, Minghella would have to confront the question that dogs any filmmaker on the continent: What is the real Africa? Is it the sunsets and savannahs of Out of Africa (which won Pollack his director's Oscar)? Is it the chaos and savagery of Hotel Rwanda, Last King of Scotland and Blood Diamond? Or is it the white man's shame of Cry Freedom and The Constant Gardener? Minghella knew that No. 1 Ladies' demanded a fresh approach...