Word: lacking
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...View, which has a personal-is-political philosophy and five women panelists, two of them African American. It jumped into the Palin controversies lustily, and in a June interview with Michelle Obama, Whoopi Goldberg raised the subject of the lack of media role models for dark-skinned black women. (Anyone who thinks that diversity in TV news is strictly a cosmetic issue should try to imagine Charlie Gibson asking about that...
Earlier this year, Spike Lee picked a fight with Clint Eastwood over the lack of black soldiers in Eastwood's Iwo Jima films Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima. Clint opined that "a guy like that should shut his face"; Spike replied, "The man is not my father, and we're not on a plantation either." No doubt that Lee was voicing a social grievance, but he was also tub-thumping some early publicity for his own WW II film - the one with the John Wayne clip and the typically smoldering Spike Lee quip...
...many “doubles,” and “The Last Days of Muhammad Atta,” an imagining of the terrorist mastermind’s final hours. Perhaps more than the non-fiction, the stories illustrate the author’s sociopathic lack of empathy. In “Last Days,” for instance, Atta is constipated. Because Atta was actually constipated in the days and hours before steering American Airlines Flight 11 into the North Tower of the World Trade Center? No. Because Amis wanted to make a point. In the story...
...least one scholar in the field, Gary Orfield of the Civil Rights Project at UCLA, questioned Fryer’s failure to acknowledge existing education research efforts.“What worries me about some of the public statements by Prof. Fryer is the kind of sloppy over-generalizations, lack of attentiveness to other research, and confidence that he can understand the core of all problems better than anyone else because he understands the magic of the market and the equations economists use to describe it,” said Orfield, a renowned expert on civil rights and education...
...hard to imagine how the lessons that work in schools in which each class has no more than 100 students could be applied in a large, urban school that has over 400 students in each grade. But, as tends to be the case with large social problems that lack easy answers, it is asking the right questions that helps us progress, and Wagner’s book raises many important questions about both the state and purpose of secondary education in America. As Wagner states in his conclusion, “However you choose to start the conversation, it will...