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...creation of special "hate crime" legislation seems only to be a rather roundabout way of promoting tolerance. As for social awareness, I suspect that the Boston Police are well aware of murders taking place within the city. Your article did not give any factual basis to the claims that "hate crimes against transgendered people have been ignored by the press". Given that this claim is apparently the sole reason for the student's activities, it would seem prudent to have substantiated...
...world of diplomacy, things are not always as they seem. As Iraqis counted casualties, assessed damage and faced another round of strikes on Thursday, the U.S. found support and criticism in familiar places. Britain, Germany and Canada backed the U.S.-led action. The Arab League condemned the attacks. Security Council members Russia and China angrily denounced the U.S.for going over the U.N.'s head, and France chimed in as well. But while the French government deplored "the grave human consequences" of the military action, it also noted the Iraqi leaders' inability "to show proof of the spirit of complete cooperation...
Sanberg, who had helped organize the event withFrankfurter Professor of Law-and prominent Clintonsuporter-Alan M. Dershowitz, said he felt theevent indicated students are not as apathetic asthey seem...
...University's performance on another criterion-the social experience of black students-is alarming. Harvard received a disappointing score of 3.75 out of 5. While no ranking can be taken without a grain of salt, and the criteria of this ranking seem especially vague, the rankings nevertheless should remind us of a troubling fact: Harvard is still a place where black students feel markedly less comfortable than their white counterparts...
Despite the rural atmosphere, the bracing cold and the presence of people who seem at first glance to be honest rustics, we are not exactly in Robert Frost country here. Hank (Bill Paxton) is smart enough to guess that money in this amount is going to be pursued by its rightful (or, more likely, wrongful) owners, but he's a weak, inexplicably damaged fellow. His brother Jacob (cunningly played by Billy Bob Thornton) is a halfwit, and Jacob's pal Lou (Brent Briscoe) has a heedless temper. Back home, Hank's wife Sarah (Bridget Fonda) quickly turns into this caper...