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This question is often asked in a whisper. Why? Because so many people believe the answer is an ugly one: bias, prejudice, racism--take your pick. Some attribute it to something less distasteful: Obama's unfamiliarity, his "exotic" background, his comparatively recent emergence on the political stage. The doubters--they...
Curt Olson, editorial page editor at the Willoughby News-Herald, says "there's been a lot of negativity about the rescue. People have all been saying, 'Let 'em suffer.' " Personally, he says, "there's a side of me that agrees with the populist feeling that this is something that Wall...
In an age of billion dollar losses and complex financial assets, Santander's fortunes speak to the advantages of a simpler approach. Spain's largest bank "lends to their clients, takes deposits from their clients, and runs a network of branches," says Antonio Ramirez, analyst at investment bank Keefe, Bruyette...
It's the galloping that helps Equus rise above its didactic moments. The play's conceit is to have actors playing the horses -wearing wire masks and rising majestically on similarly constructed hoof-like platform shoes. The dance-like performances (under Thea Sharrock's solid, no-nonsense direction) are both...
Even if it is tempting to look with disdain or bemusement upon these fanatical customs, the good anthropologist must remember that every cultural scene is the product out of a legitimate system of meaning. For the bleary-eyed people who come out here every morning, there is a sort of...