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...confidential until the trial. The circumstances of the crime—particularly, the many ways that power dynamics manifested themselves—are relevant because rape is done for power, and the national media is doing its job well by reporting on them. These complicating factors are, for example, racial issues (the woman was black, and she claims her attackers, all white, yelled racial epithets while raping her), class issues (the lacrosse team from a privileged private school paid to use a house for a party and paid a single mother from a state college to dance at the party...
...Institute CEO Ron Forman. But Nagin, an unknown cable company executive before he became mayor, was running fifth in the polls when he won last time. ?Truth is, the campaigns don?t have polling data,? says Elliott Stonecipher, a political analyst and demographer in Shreveport. "If there is a racial aberration in voting, all bets are off. If a lot of African Americans turn out, Nagin runs stronger. If the African Americans don?t get their act together - and the Democratic National Committee and Jesse Jackson are very worried about that - then Nagin runs fourth or fifth...
...Instead of racial tensions, the conflicts here are tribal: classroom cliques of jocks, nerds, skateboarders, cheerleaders. The movie suggests that, by junior year, kids are pigeon-holed in their groups, afraid to explore other, ornery dreams. Like white-collar wage slaves, but 30 years too early, they are undergoing a mid-teen crisis. The received wisdom (voiced in the most irresistible of the movie's nine radio-friendly songs) is to "Stick to the stuff you know... Stick to the status quo." Yet a few kids harbor subversive ambitions. The inner Troy wants to try out for the school musical...
...numbers reveal that only 41 out of the 64 teams (the University of Pennsylvania, which does not release its graduation rates, was not included) manage to shepherd at least 50 percent of their students to a college degree. A racial gap is also apparent. Thirty-eight teams saw 70 percent of their white players graduate compared to just 21 teams for black students, the study found...
...festival] was not necessarily driven by the idea that it was going to be commercial,” he explains, mentioning the appeal of racial, sexual, and aesthetic diversity. “And there ended up being a kind of freshness to a part...