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One reason for the picture's impact is its straight-ahead melodramatic structure. At its simplest level the movie functions as a well-constructed mystery story. A black man, a gardener named Gordon Ngubene (Winston Ntshona), comes to his employer, Ben du Toit (Donald Sutherland), asking him to help find...
Instead, Dinkins appealed to the rational majority of New Yorkers--those who knew that, despite the mood of hysteria that had engulfed the city with the hot and humid summer air, a majority of New Yorkers of different races actually wanted to get along.
McAfee's situation has revived a smoldering controversy over whether health- care providers should help the disabled commit suicide. In July a paraplegic in Michigan successfully petitioned a court to have his respirator turned off. Some officials denounced that action, saying it set a dangerous example for the handicapped by...
The best-known propagator of the theory that history has an "end," meaning its fulfillment in an ideal political system, was Karl Marx. He believed the contradictions of all previous societies would be resolved by the emergence of a Communist utopia. Marx borrowed his concept from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel...
The court ruled that even if Masson did not say those words, Malcolm's inventions were permissible because they did not "alter the substantive content" of what he actually said, or were a "rational interpretation" of his comments. Judge Alex Kozinski fiercely dissented: "While courts have a grave responsibility under...