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...again. In 2004, Samuel L. Jackson and Juliette Binoche made In My Country about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings in the mid- to late '90s, and Hilary Swank starred as an attorney representing a black South African political activist seeking amnesty in Red Dust. Then came Catch a Fire (terrorism during apartheid) with Tim Robbins in 2006 and Goodbye Bafana (the friendship between Mandela and his white prison guard) with Joseph Fiennes in 2007. This year brings Endgame, a thriller about the secret talks to end apartheid starring William Hurt and Jonny Lee Miller. In February, as Ving Rhames...
...Tape over your fire alarm. You stupid stupid stupids. The first time you get caught smoking you get a warning. The first time you get caught with your fire alarm taped over, you go to the ad board. Think about...
...better fix. But he has a personal reason to take the issues seriously. Two years ago, he was in his apartment in Blacksburg, Virginia, listening to sirens sounding across the campus outside his window. A half-dozen friends of his were in the classroom where Cho Seung-Hui opened fire, and the names of some of the dead belong to people he knew. "The idealist in me is shocked and angry," Woods says, that restrictions on guns have eased rather than tightened in the wake of tragedies like the one at Virginia Tech. "But the cynic...
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...case, SLAM’s expectations are contradictory. The group argues, on the one hand, that Harvard does not need to fire workers. It claims that Harvard could do more and that the university could be more creative in dealing with the crisis. At the same time, it demands that Harvard release more information regarding its finances. It is unreasonable to condemn Harvard’s decisions while simultaneously admitting ignorance of the university’s financial situation and current efforts. This lack of reason only disincentivizes Harvard from providing more information—in SLAM?...