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Players, Choose Your Pitch As a white South African, I was disturbed by Vivienne Walt's "Field of Broken Dreams" [Sept. 24]. There are people who will never be satisfied despite massive reform within our country. I am sure I speak for most white South Africans when I say we are more than pleased to have put apartheid behind us and we would never support racial discrimination of that sort in our lifetime. The suggestion that a white élite school system has kept potential black players off the national team is ludicrous. If you travel to any corner...
...There are differences of language and nationality. A Latino can speak Spanish or Portuguese or Quechua,” said the president of Fuerza Latina, Juan Sebastian Arias ’09, before a crowd eating food from all around the region. “This month is about sharing this diversity and getting to know [our] similarities...
...Entitled “Restoring Patriotism to America’s Campuses Act,” this legislation would cut every dime of federal funding to Columbia University, for both inviting an alleged sponsor of terrorism and President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak on campus and dissolving their Reserve Officer Training Corps program...
...planned: after several strange mishaps, the brothers end up lost in the desert with no one to ask for help and no easy way out. Wilson, Brody, and Schwartzman create a compellingly realistic dynamic of brothers in mourning: they give freely but take away just as quickly, they speak like seven-year-olds, they hurt each other by arguing about whom Dad loved more. Anderson’s portrayal of India, with its desolate yet rich scenery, is also particularly adept. In a telling directorial move, Anderson almost incorporates the three alienated brothers, wearing “tilak?...
...fine because it is a Japanese tradition," he says. "But protecting our culture is not worth endangering our children's health." Junichiro Yamashita, the other member of the town council who opposes serving dolphin in school lunches, believes a silent majority supports his cause but is reluctant to speak publicly. "At the last town meeting, there was a lot of pressure from fishermen not to publicize the mercury results," he says. Some are afraid of losing their jobs if Taiji takes dolphin off the menu. But Yamashita is pushing an idea that, at least for the long term...