Word: consciousnesses
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...deserves is as the year’s most overrated film. Though beautifully shot and populated with a set of unusually complicated characters, Talk to Her shamelessly and outrageously asks its audience to sympathize with a rapist. The film manages, paradoxically, to be both sloppily edited and deadeningly self-conscious. As it progresses, the audience is slowly but surely ushered into a stupor very closely resembling that of the coma victim at the story’s inane center. Winner of this year’s Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Talk to Her screens...
...There isn’t clearly a body of work directed to social and political issues,” Stopforth said. “But there certainly are individuals who are who are conscious of it and introduce aspects of it in their work...
...fixed number of points for race is not flexible enough. Or the Court could impose a time requirement so that policies have a fixed duration. As a practical matter, the Court could, by establishing difficult or unreachable standards for narrow tailoring, sound a death knell for many race-conscious admissions policies...
Some colleges and universities, in anticipation of one of these negative scenarios, have already jumped the gun by revisiting or dismantling their race-conscious admissions and financial aid programs. Virginia Tech, for instance, has waffled, abandoning its race-conscious admissions policy a few weeks ago, only to reinstate it recently after more careful consideration. Prodded on by anti-affirmative action groups, schools such as MIT and Princeton have decided to abandon or revise their minority-targeted scholarship and pre-college preparation programs, even though the burdens on non-minority students in these programs are minimal compared to a denial...
...June, we can expect rulings in which the Supreme Court clarifies the boundaries of race-conscious affirmative action—decisions where race can still be used in higher education admissions, but probably only under very limited circumstances. Race will not disappear from the legal landscape, but its role could be seriously diminished. The alignment of the justices in the University of Michigan cases is still uncertain, with Justice O’Connor being the likely swing vote in a pair of 5-to-4 decisions. But, the impact of the Supreme Court’s decisions, regardless of whether...