Word: exclusionism
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Hoop Dreams. Crumb. Michael Moore's Roger & Me. Errol Morris' The Thin Blue Line. Michael Apted's 7 Up series. These are some of the finest documentary features in recent decades, and they share one distinction: none received an Oscar, or even a nomination, for Best Documentary. An outcry over...
Earlier this week, the exhausting final club controversy was thrust onto the national stage after Senator Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 severed his ties with the Owl Club. The collective squirming of the eight exclusive clubs’ prospective politicos could be sensed. The...
Students eligible for a federal grant might want to think twice about how “smart” their concentration is. A Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent (SMART) Grant, part of a bill awaiting a final Congressional vote, would give an additional $4,000 per year to...
Racial alienation and ethnic mockery are commonplace in the immigrant-kid experience, and the stories these Asian Americans tell of their childhood are "the same kind of talk about social exclusion that you might have found among Italians and Jews in the 1930s," says Harvard sociologist Mary Waters. But previous...
Showing Gays the Door My thanks to Andrew Sullivan for his thoughtful essay, "The Vatican's New Stereotype," on the Roman Catholic Church's new rules barring gays from the priesthood [Dec. 12]. He expressed so well how I have been feeling?like an outsider in the church that was...