Word: mattering
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...Still, the lengths to which Kennedy appears to have gone to be gentle on Sotomayor seem to open the possibility of his being open to her influence. Goldstein says, "Her stories and personal experience will matter," if not on discrimination, then elsewhere...
...accessible? Oh yeah! Michael was a citizen of the world. I said, "Mike, let's go to Brazil to do this." And he said, "Let's go, Spike!" And it's great when you work with people who say stuff like that - it's not a matter of budget. He wanted to do it? We were going...
...media learn to ask the right question? Sotomayor, the junior judge on a three-judge panel, did not endorse New Haven's decision to discard the promotion test for a group of firefighters when not enough minority firefighters passed the test. She merely declined to step into the matter--as an activist jurist might have done--to tell New Haven that discarding the test was the wrong thing to do. Those are different actions. If anything, the Ricci case proves that Sotomayor is not an activist jurist. Dale Whiting, CHANDLER, ARIZ...
...better question might be, Can you still do films today dealing with race in the so-called, quote-unquote, postracial world we live in? I don't even know what that is when people say that. It would be a different movie, but I don't think that subject matter has been exhausted...
...this time: members of the Basij, a pro-Ahmadinejad paramilitary group, stormed dormitories at Tehran University, reportedly killing five students and detaining hundreds. At least one demonstrator was killed when a Basiji opened fire on a crowd. There are eyewitness reports of deaths from clashes across Iran. Yet no matter what transpires--whether the government bows to the demands for change or launches a bloodier crackdown--Iran will never be the same. The election and its aftermath exposed the cynicism of the country's leaders but also revealed the determination of millions of Iranians to reach for a future that...