Word: equalization
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...Completed just two weeks before his death, Tell Me a Story is imperfectly written but no less compelling for that - these are, after all, the words of a man ravaged by chemotherapy, who knew he was dying. But swaths of it are equal to Sinclair at his roaring, mid-period best. He never compensated for his tracheotomy by being verbose in print - on the contrary, having to choose every spoken word with great care taught him the value of writing with fierce economy. At the book's launch, four days before he died, Sinclair was too ill to even sign...
Governor Bill Richardson is another example of a candidate dropping out owing to polls and limited media coverage. It seems that the top three polled contenders receive the most press coverage, so the others don't have an equal opportunity to reach voters. Years ago, presidential candidates were picked at their party conventions. Now they're chosen during caucuses and primaries, and the conventions are just big shows. People must be informed about all the contenders if they are to be involved in democracy. That happens only if the polls are put aside and all the candidates receive fair...
...Indeed, Tuesday's ruling, in many ways, represents a back door to equal treatment. Franck Tanguy, spokesman for France's Association of Gay and Lesbian Parents, says "this ruling is a step in the right direction" in that it "requires countries that, like France, allow singles to adopt children to treat unmarried homosexual and heterosexual applicants in exactly the same manner." Failure to do so in any country with such legislation, Tanguy says, means they'd "find themselves condemned again and again for discrimination by the many single homosexuals who'd use this precedent to base a legal defense...
Sarah Holewinski, executive director for the Washington-based Campaign for Innocent Victims of Conflict (CIVIC), a group lobbying for fair and equal treatment for families of bystanders killed in conflict by the U.S. military says: "The military has a big interest in getting it right. Right now, we see a good effort but not good implementation. Make sure payments are fair, make sure they're uniform from one family to another, make sure they're immediate following the bombs and bullets and make sure this is true whenever U.S. troops head into combat - that's how you properly dignify deaths...
...seems interested in trying again for this year's MLK day; last year's bust was an all-too-common reminder of Atlanta's nagging social segregation - a sort of benign but nonetheless disturbing separate but equal. "It's [still] the South [and] people aren't as open-minded here as other cities like San Francisco or New York," says Jill Renee Brummond, who does marketing and event planning for local clubs. "People are focused on color here. Atlanta as a whole is set in its ways." Alison White, a black, 30-something medical recruiter, agrees: "There...