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Women's films: even the name sounds second-class and second-rate. "It narrows the experience," says Meryl Poster, co-president of production at Miramax Films, which distributes Chicago and is a partner in The Hours. "It doesn't sound like a full picture; you think it's weepy or trite." Another pejorative, chick flicks, is even more limiting. "It denigrates a male appreciation of the female experience," says Diane Lane, who won the New York Film Critics' Actress award for her turn as an adulterous wife in Unfaithful. "I think men are very curious and surprised by the female...
...felt it was a shame that a world-class school like Harvard...isn’t a first-class or even a second-class [basketball] program,” said his son, Robert H. Lavietes ’71. “I like to think that the 10-5 record today has something to do with that facility...
...tolerance, it may be that they have yet to draw the line at all. “Love the sinner, hate the sin” simply does not make sense when dealing with inherent traits. Nor can churches expect gay and lesbian congregants to continue to accept the second-class membership of being excluded from leadership positions...
...street riots in Antwerp that followed the murder last month of 27-year-old Moroccan schoolteacher Mohammed Achrak by a 66-year-old mentally ill Belgian man. But Abou Jahjah turned Verhofstadt's allegations into a trial of Belgian attitudes toward the country's 400,000 Muslims. Are Muslims second-class citizens? What will the government do to fight rising racial tension? And why do many second-generation Muslim Belgians still not feel at home? The situation is especially dire in Antwerp, where unemployment in many immigrant communities hovers around 30%. Under the slogan "Our People First," the far-right...
These results should spur us to pay more, not less, attention to ballot initiatives before the next election. Ballot initiatives are currently treated as second-class electoral issues, largely ignored in favor of headliners like gubernatorial races—headliners whose arcane differences in political philosophy are, in fact, often far less exciting than the issues at hand in ballot initiatives. The more attention they are given and the less their authors’ hidden aims remain relatively unexplored in the press, the better-poised ballot initiatives will be to fulfill their purpose as vital, direct tools for an informed...