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...jumping from genre to genre without a misstep. What other filmmaker has adapted both Jane Austen and a comic book, or followed a kung-fu film with a movie about gay cowboys? In Lust, Caution, Lee is trying out yet another, marrying an old-fashioned noir spy thriller à la Hitchcock's Notorious with a serious-minded inquiry into the nature of desire...
...people just stop whining and get with the program?” It allows race relations to be solely a black issue, and not a national issue—it’s the reason why the vast majority of people who care enough to march down to Jena, La. to protest racially motivated injustice are black. The more white people see themselves as the rational and intelligent ones here, and black people as the opposite, the more it reeks of the superior beliefs that are the hallmark of racism...
Last Thursday, 10,000 civil rights activists from across the country rallied in Jena, La. to protest and commemorate events that occurred in and around the local high school. A series of racially-motivated altercations culminated in a cafeteria brawl in December 2006. The victim, a white student who allegedly taunted the black students with racial slurs, was hospitalized but released a few hours later and attended a party that evening. The defendants, six black minors, were arrested and charged with second-degree murder...
...example, especially after 1996, Asian Americans were portrayed in the media as hyperactive political donors eager to use wealth to accomplish political goals. Brian Adams and Ping Ren addressed this question in a 2006 study that examined candidate fundraising and campaign donor patterns among Asians in New York, LA, San Francisco, and Seattle (four U.S. cities with high Asian populations). They found that, contrary to popular belief, Asian fundraising and donation patterns do not exceed average. With some exceptions, Asians are roughly proportionally represented among campaign contributors...
...Vatican quickly fired back this week. John Paul's longtime doctor Renato Buzzonetti, who now monitors Pope Benedict XVI, said that doctors and John Paul himself all acted to stave off death. "His treatment was never interrupted," Buzzonetti told the Rome daily La Repubblica. "Anyone who says otherwise is mistaken." He added that a permanent nasal feeding tube was inserted three days before the Pope's death when he could no longer sufficiently ingest food or liquids. Buzzonetti did not specifically respond to Pavanelli's claim that John Paul needed a tube weeks, not days, before he eventually died...