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...MIGHT STOP HERE: People either like the movie or loathe it. There isn't much middle ground on which compromisers can take a stand. And despite the fact that it contains a lot of fine acting by the likes of Matt Dillon and Terrence Howard, it is too wide-ranging to really draw you into the lives it recounts...
This is the treacherous moral ground of inner-city America, where communities from Boston to Milwaukee are looking for ways to combat a rising culture of witness intimidation. Despite a dip in 2004, national homicide rates have increased since 2000, and in some towns it is as difficult as ever to prosecute shootings and murders. Prosecutors say that the nationwide popularity of Stop Snitching T shirts is proof positive that thugs in some parts of the country continue to control the streets. Whether out of fear or a deep allegiance to the code of silence, witnesses simply aren't talking...
...Labour, as Blair was," says Vernon Bogdanor, professor of government at Oxford University. Any differences that emerge between the two men, Bogdanor continues, will be "ones of emphasis and style rather than anything fundamental." Cameron, for his part, has learned from Blair's assiduous courting of the "middle ground" of politics, and has spent the last three months talking about the need to relieve poverty and protect the environment - not themes for which the Tories were once best known. George Osborne, who shadows Brown for the Tories, manfully insists there are "real differences" between the two parties, while conceding that...
...People travel to Common Ground from all over—I met people who biked down to New Orleans wearing superhero uniforms and helping others along the way,” he wrote. “There are a lot of challenges that come with communal living, but what most impressed me was the collective energy and flexibility and the fact that the organization continues to thrive as waves of volunteers come...
...over the University without angering his detractors even more.“If he would go that route, I think he’d have an even more rebellious faculty on his hands,” according to James T. Kloppenberg, the Kemper professor of American history.Finding a middle ground might now be the president’s ultimate challenge-—an impossible one, say some professors from both camps.“I don’t think that there is a conciliation option right now,” Glaeser said.SILENCE AT THE TOPWith the Faculty...