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...this post--civil rights age, with the media hungry for a single black narrative, there is a strong desire to have one voice speak to--and for--us all. But that impulse is wrong, whether it's focused on Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton or Barack Obama. It's wrong because it distorts and flattens the very complexities and contradictions that ultimately make black people human. In 2006, this magazine reported on a University of Minnesota study that found, not surprisingly, that blacks were more likely than whites to see racism in the world. But the same study also found that...
...Although detailed information concerning the secret trials has emerged, Van Devere sees a need to delve deeper. He gave the following advice to the actors in the film: “Find your voice, be true to these individuals, and let the voice speak for itself. And by so doing the audience will step away saying, ‘Their voices mattered, I can finally hear them.’” With this emphasis on loyalty to the actual events—as well as to the men they affected—the screenplay draws from the documented...
...part of the excitement involved in beer brewing stems from the relative dearth of knowledge about the process. Although the Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub is doing its share to raise beer awareness on campus, inviting specialty brewers to speak, beer expertise still isn’t mainstream. I knew next to nothing about brewing myself, though it’s surprisingly easy. The process, essentially liquid baking, can be broken down into five steps...
...years for five Buddhist monks. Two years for a poet. In the space of just three days this week, more than 30 Burmese were sentenced to prison or hard labor by the country's ruling junta, a chilling legal onslaught that sent a clear message to other potential dissidents: speak out, and get used to life in a prison cell...
...main Russian news agencies quoted an unnamed Kremlin source as rejecting the latest efforts by the Bush Administration to assuage Moscow's fears and suspending talks with Washington on the issue. "We will not give our agreement to these proposals," the source is quoted as saying, "and we will speak to the new Administration...