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Then the fighting began. Olison campaigned to get her son back, appealing to the courts' tradition of favoring birth parents in custody cases. But her more explosive claim was that the Burkes, who had baptized Baby T as a Roman Catholic, were not suitable parents for an African-American child. Olison accused the Department of Children and Family Services of discriminating against black families. A black South Side minister called on the Burkes to adopt a white child instead. The Olison camp's argument was much like Miami Cuban Americans' claim about Elian: a whole community should have...
PRETTY ON THE INSIDE Sure, the translucent look--dubbed "Aqua"--of the new Mac OS X (that's roman numeral 10) will go perfectly with your iMac or G4, but it's more than just pretty. OS X's brand-new code should eliminate system crashes and make special graphic effects easier to display. Due out this summer...
...encroaching on a discrete point in history; Taymor has created a sort of collapsed-time anti-history, allowing visual elements of every period of history imaginable to lead the audience through a journey of personal and intellectual association. For instance, the film shows in quick succession scenes of a Roman Orgy (some of which had to be cut to obtain an R rather than NC-17 rating), scenes in a modern video arcade, beautifully mystical dream sequences of interconnection, and scenes in which characters ride in '30s-style cars...
...determining how recent court decisions here relate to international norms, let's first look to our neighbors, or should we say neighbours, to the North. On Nov. 5 the United Nations Human Rights Committee ruled on the question of whether Ontario's funding of an exclusively Roman Catholic denominational school violates international law prohibiting discrimination. Canada, like Britain, has never endorsed the separation of church and state. Besides Catholic school funding in Ontario, all public schools in Quebec have either Protestant or Roman Catholic affiliation. Even so, international standards on religious discrimination have prevailed in Canadian public schools. The United...
...power--a compound of rebel cheekiness, stylistic innovation and a tragicomic vision of media power--has never waned. It remains a work that seduces the young and inspires the old with thoughts of what the medium can achieve. RUNNERS-UP Day for Night by Francois Truffaut; Chinatown by Roman Polanski...