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...Finally, this decision could have a net negative effect on gay rights. Currently, the California constitution does not mention gay marriage, either to forbid or require its recognition. The Court’s rash decision to interpret this silence as a guarantee of gay rights could provoke the populace to remove the ambiguity: November’s state elections could see a referendum on a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. Unfortunately, by opening a new battlefront on the constitution, the court has provoked such drastic kinds of move that could set back progress on the issue by decades...
...Reverend was outrageous, even on Moyers. He stood by what he had preached after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks: that this was a case of America's "chickens coming home to roost." He tried to say he was merely quoting U.S. Ambassador Edward Peck-but Wright chose to interpret those "chickens" not as the decision to place U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia, which was Osama bin Laden's casus belli, but as the ancient sins of slavery, the eradication of Native Americans, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It would have been nice if Moyers had asked Wright...
...Middle East. “I was in the Middle East for a bit; Tarek came out of there,” he said. “I was spending time with different musicians and artists.” But, just as McCarthy does not wish to interpret his film for anyone, he does not want to explain his characters and their backgrounds in excessive depth either. “I don’t go to that great pains to explain,” he said. “I don’t paint it too clearly...
...difference between the East and the West. Creative directors Natasha M. Platt ’10 and Moonlit M. Wang ’10 said the exposure to Western culture influences the Asian hip-hop scene in novel ways. “We wanted to show how people interpret [Western hip-hop] differently and recreate it using their own cultural background and traditions,” Wang said. They achieved this end by opening their segment with Western hip-hop inspired clothing to act as a contrast to the more Eastern clothing that followed. The outfits underscored the gracefulness...
Wilkinson suggested that teaching fellows and course heads work with somebody outside the course to interpret the feedback...