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...Barrios, who was elected to the Massachusetts House in 1998 and Senate in 2002, is known as a champion of gay rights and other progressive issues, such as expanding medical coverage for low-income individuals and providing emergency-room interpreters for non-English speaking patients...
Elected to the Massachusetts House in 1998 and Senate in 2002, Barrios is known as a champion of gay rights and other progressive issues, such as expanding medical coverage for low-income individuals and providing emergency-room interpreters for non-English speaking patients. His district, which covers Middlesex, Suffolk, and Essex counties, is among the most progressive in the state...
Fifty homegrown productions, including films like Kenneth Branagh's The Magic Flute and the upcoming Elizabeth sequel, The Golden Age, contributed $290 million. But the real boost came from outsiders, especially U.S. studios, which poured $1.12 billion into filming Bond and Potter as well as non-English creations using the country's locations, talent or technical know-how. That's the level of activity the industry might have expected after a bumper year like 2003 when Bridget Jones joined forces with Troy and Alexander to help generate $2.2 billion...
What conceivable sort of advantage is provided by having non-English speaking parents who work at least 12 hours a day in menial labor? Clearly such people face some economic barriers and racial discrimination, so why is their treatment not worthy of redress? Is there some sort of “racism scale” on which the difficulties faced by Asians are smaller than those faced by either Hispanics or blacks? If so, who makes such a scale and, more importantly, who is doing the weighing...
Elections this year have been good to the Democrats, but a new study from the Kennedy School of Government reveals that the party of Jefferson and Jackson actually faces a systematic disadvantage in tight races. Democrats—and especially Hispanic, low-income, non-English speaking, less educated, and young voters—are more likely to miscast their ballots. At least one out of every 400 votes are accidentally cast for a candidate other than the one the voter intended to support, the working paper says. The paper, posted on the Kennedy School’s Web site last...