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...folks behind this week's Academy Awards ceremony tried hard to make Hollywood seem a haven of equality. They devised a special tribute, "Oscar Celebrates Women and the Movies." But the salute only underlined the plight of women in movies. Something has gone deeply wrong when Hollywood, which built its worldwide appeal on boy-meets-girl, needs affirmative action for women...
...think that everyone, especially the newly-formed Coalition for Diversity, should recall what happened to the issue of the growing Black underclass when it was first brought to the public's attention by the Moynihan Report on the Negro Family in 1965. Liberals like Moynihan who linked the plight of disadvantaged groups to broader problems in society suddenly found themselves silenced by a waves of critics on the Left who furiously objected to the stigma attached to terms like the "underclass" and "social pathology." Precursors to the multiculturalism of the 1990s, these critics rejected liberal arguments that linked "pathological" aspects...
...Bosnian Muslims and Croat Catholics. Serb militias now occupy 70% of Bosnia and Herzegovina, leaving only Sarajevo and isolated pockets in the hands of Bosnia's mainly Muslim government. Among the most desperate are the besieged Muslim towns in eastern Bosnia, near the frontier with Serbia. It was their plight that prompted Clinton to order the airdrops over the snow-covered town of Cerska...
...symbolism of the play may seem weak by today's standards. The woman--she is given no name--projects her plight onto another unnamed woman, thus universalizing the theme. Also, women's issues of the 1990s differ greatly from the concerns of the 19th century, rendering the play slightly outdated...
Incidents in Iraq can be seen as purely Western interest at work, with the no fly zone only established because of Western embarrassment over the handling of the Kurdish plight, Alston said...