Word: foner
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...trophy in Losing Isaiah, written by Naomi Foner and directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal, is a black child whose drug-addict mother (Halle Berry) dumped him in a garbage can shortly after his birth. Now he is two-and the point of contention in a tug-of-love between the mother and the family that raised him. Isaiah plays as a court case, with evidence and arguments for each side. But in movie terms, the case is stacked against Lange: next to Berry's radiant youth, she looks sere and exhausted. It is one of those dares a maturing female star...
...Eric Foner, a professor of history at Columbia University who has closely watched the evolution of National Standards, says, "Pressure groups from the right demand a political correctness of their own, but somehow the name p.c. is never applied to them. When veterans' groups demand and succeed in changing an exhibition, nobody cries p.c. They say these guys are reacting against revisionism...
...Even was an involved and committed youth leader," said Miriam R. Foner, associate director of the youth organization for the Michigan region. "Even throughout his illness he was still actively involved in our organization...
...Even was kind, fair and understanding. He had a keen sense of awareness, and he knew how others were feeling," Foner said. "He was a terrific role model...
...true, as Columbia University historian Eric Foner asserts, that "there really is a genuine parallel between Lincoln and Gorbachev" ? That "Lincoln's position, like Gorbachev's, was that a union, no matter how it was formed, cannot be abandoned." Why do we praise Lincoln for launching a war to save the Union but denounce Gorbachev for much milder actions...