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...looking to recruit women for the sake of recruiting women," she said. "We are only trying to recruit qualified women applicants. ... Even if we move two or three percentage points, I'd be thrilled...
...seem at first grating and pessimistic. Adding Leigh's habit of parking the camera before two or three people whose lives are slowly cracking and splintering might seem a bit much. But in fact, as the scenes are drawn out, we are drawn in. We wish for the characters' sake that the shot would end, if only for the illusion that their sadness might stop for a beat off camera. In one scene in an empty restaurant, where Cynthia talks at length with Hortense for the first time and suddenly realizes the truth, we almost feel embarrassed at being privy...
Will America ever be ready for a president without the proper descriptive adjectives? The answer should lie in the question, Why does it matter? Should we have a black president or a gay one or a Jewish one, just for the sake of it? No. If we had a female president, would our country be a better place? Not necessarily, no; in fact, it might be worse off--depending...
Israel claims that the tunnel does not infringe on the Islamic Holy sites and is for "touristic purposes only". Does this mean that the current Israeli government is willing to sacrifice so much blood and endanger the whole peace process for the sake of a "touristic project"? Highly unlikely. Israel's latest move is of great symbolic importance...
Objectivism, according to the club's philosophical literature, "upholds the supreme value of the individual mind and champions the individual's right to live for his own sake, by his own judgment...