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...members of his tribe "may cut my throat, they may kill me, torture me." The filmmakers, he claims, initially said they wouldn't film the rape scene. Producers deny misleading the actor and his family. The offending scene is tastefully portrayed, they say, and crucial to the plot. Still, Paramount Vantage, the film's distributor, is taking the security fears seriously. Having dispatched a retired CIA operative to Afghanistan to assess the dangers, it decided to delay the film's U.S. release by six weeks, allowing time to evacuate its child stars to the United Arab Emirates...
...remind their fan-base of the negative things associated with that group (and thus the NBA), the organization implemented a business-attire dress code for all public appearances. On our own campus, the Black Men’s Forum (BMF) is similarly aware of image as one of the paramount obstacles for black men in America. Echoing the NBA dress code, the BMF tries to promote a positive image through their bi-weekly “BMF Tie Day,” which Brotherhood Chair Sangu Delle ’10 described not only as “a symbolic...
Schumer praises Mukasey’s “fidelity to the rule of law” as paramount among the reasons he endorsed him. Yet the purpose of the Justice Department is to enforce the law. Respect for the law is surely a basic requirement for any nominee for the highest law enforcement post in the land, not a reason to heap on the accolades...
...cohesion. Rather, the program at the University of Delaware represents the worst mechanisms for building diversity on a college campus: Its methods were to victimize and criminalize, and its effects were to polarize. In our ethnically and racially diverse colleges, diversity and awareness of cross-cultural issues is of paramount importance. However, the goal of awareness is to further understanding—not further barriers. Diversity programs ought to aim to bring students together rather than to serve as stages for airing past societal grievances. That is not the way to move forward in a multicultural society. Instead, a college...
...should have taken another tack," Masood asserts, "gone for elections and created an environment in Pakistan where rule of law is paramount so that the country would have been placed on much more stable footing...