Word: equalization
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...December, the court will wrestle with whether race can be used to assign pupils to public elementary and secondary schools. White parents from Louisville, Ky., and Seattle, backed by the Bush Administration, argue that using race as a deciding factor violates the constitutional right to equal protection. The most recent precedent: 2003, when the court ruled 5-4 that race could be used as a factor in admissions to public universities. Kennedy, who dissented in that case, could swing the decision the other...
...Casting Lau and Leung made for a superstar pairing equal, in Hong Kong, to DiCaprio and Damon - or, since the Hong Kong actors are about a decade older than the Americans, to Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt. Leung's persona, of restrained brooding and worldly-wise resignation, has won him five Hong Kong Film Awards as Best Actor, two more as Supporting Actor, as well as Cannes' actor prize for In the Mood. Lau, whose retinue of teen fans follows him everywhere (he's also the most successful Cantopop singer of his generation), has been a lucrative movie commodity...
...Letting Go(Drag City)4.5 of 5 StarsBy ABE J. RIESMANCRIMSON STAFF WRITER Will Oldham, whether singing as Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Palace Music, or his own Christian name, likes his songs to exist outside of time.So, anyone familiar with his voluminous catalog—equal parts confounding and transcendent—will know that something strange is afoot in the opening line of his new album.“When the numbers / get so high / of the dead / flying through the sky,” he mumble-croons over soft strings and guitar strums...
...values and interests of the policed world - not necessarily the same as his - or stop being the policeman nobody has asked him to be. The polar opposites of isolationism and interventionism are not the only options. There is also the option of participating in world politics on an equal footing with other nations. Meanwhile, anti-Americanism is unfortunately growing where the U.S. would not expect it. Rainer Lau Brussels Compliments to Stengel for his editorial. Unlike the other articles in Time on the aftermath of 9/11, his was the only one that raised some fundamental questions. When violence is countered...
...Ripples of Change in China Sorrow and rage grew in equal measure as I read Hannah Beech's unsettling account of the Chinese government's persecution of legal activist Chen Guangcheng [Sept. 4]. Disgust threatened to turn to despair. What hope is there for individuals like Chen, outgunned and outnumbered? But then I recalled the words that novelist Lu Xun wrote 85 years ago at the end of his short story My Old Home: "Hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth...