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...educate others around the country about civil rights, quite independently of Dr. King. Now, obviously, none of this should be surprising to anyone. Black womanhood is the epitome of the dreaded “double minority” status, so a considerable amount of historical marginalization has become par for the course. After all, women in general are brushed aside in overall American history, and apart from February, the history of black people is either not mentioned much at all or is treated as something that happened somehow separately from everything else. Additionally, black history itself is taught...
...crop of gay-themed movies like “Brokeback Mountain,” but this flick is far too frothy and fluffy for such a comparison. In terms of tweaking the romantic comedy to accommodate modern notions of love, “Imagine” is rather sub-par. If the writing were crisper and Perabo just a little more compelling, then perhaps this romantic comedy would have been humorously poignant. Instead, it relies upon hackneyed romantic comedy techniques and that damn song “Happy Together...
...working and trusting investors that most of them are. The gut-wrenching comparison that best illustrates that something may be amiss: in 2005, the average diversified stock fund returned 6.7%; bond investors gained under 1%; the average stock rose just 3%, according to market tracker Lipper. Those seriously sub-par returns don't square with a record Wall Street payday...
CLINTON Tell the truth! I was 2 under par after seven holes...
...proof” that Lewis is all wrong. Tolkien was, of course, a devout and serious Christian believer who succeeded in converting Lewis from militant atheism. Somehow, critics imply, this should mean that Lewis’ work is sub par or meaningless. Why Tolkien’s critique should disqualify Lewis’ work is not clear, unless one expects Christians to have identical worldviews and opinions, and to march in a rigid theological lockstep. One could, of course, advance this argument, but it is fundamentally unserious...