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Caught Between Color Lines I agreed in general with what randall Kennedy had to say in "The Right Shade of Black," but I thought it odd that he referred to Senator Barack Obama's "adopted racial roots" [Jan. 28]. According to his skin color, Obama is black, but his mixed parentage dictates that, strictly speaking, he is neither black nor white. Nothing about his race has been adopted. In any case, why should we care about Obama's race? We should support candidates who approach problems intelligently, without adhering to racial - or any other - biases. Arthur C. Echtemacht, Knoxville, Tenn...
...girls in much of the country, education remains a dream no more attainable now than it was under the Taliban. In the past six years, 3,500 new schools have been built across the country, but fewer than half of them have buildings. Most are in tents, in the shade of trees or wherever open space can be made available. This has a direct bearing on the number of girls enrolled: most Afghan families won't allow their daughters to be where they may be seen by men. "Girls in this society have certain needs," says Education Minister Hanif Atmar...
...like the balance Forster and screenwriter David Benioff achieve between large historical events and purely personal ones, I like the easy, but never slack, pace of their storytelling, and, above all, I like the way sympathetic portraits do not shade into sentimental ones. This is a confident and honorable movie - and a gripping one. I've come to think that stories about ordinary people blown helplessly through the world on the winds of endless war were the central narrative of the 20th century and, likely, the central one of the 21st century as well. Much of humanity has been turned...
From Charlestown, Woo takes the T to Harvard Square, rushes to class—which she has scheduled back to back on Mondays, Wednesday, and Fridays—before changing into khakis and a shirt that is “an ungodly shade of blue” to take the red line downtown to work at the Vitamin Shoppe...
Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving when retailers traditionally start going from "being in the red" to "being in the black," might look a different shade this year. And that's not a good thing for retailers...