Word: standardize
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...seeming likely to be the weekend's No. 1 attraction. With the aid of film-biz hindsight, we can realize what Barry L. Levy, the film's writer, and its director, Pete Travis, figured out about the assassination genre: (1) that it can easily be fit into a standard action scenario and (2) that the plot can be split six or eight ways, into as many points of view. Each witness to the assassination provides important fragments of the information needed for the viewer to figure out whodunit and whether the perps will get away with their atrocity...
...University has also reached an agreement with Massachusetts to keep its greenhouse gas emissions low as it embarks on the construction of a new campus in Allston. In exchange for Harvard's keeping emissions at half the national standard for the project, the Commonwealth will fast track regulatory approval for much of the construction...
...denying that “Harlem’s American Gangster” is an entertaining if not vital listen. But as a statement on Harlem street life, it falls short. Perhaps Jim Jones doesn’t have the rap skills necessary to effectively take the standard “gangster experience” (if such a thing even exists) and present it in a way that is uniquely Harlem. Regardless of his lyrical abilities, Jones has done nothing to alter or add to hip-hop discourse, and has once again proven his status as a jester...
...whether Eccles would receive one more day’s worth of burgers than the standard 365 since 2008 is a leap year, Olinto said, “Damn right...
...affirmative action—and, in doing so, shows that labeling someone a sellout to a community based on a scientific myth does damage to the social bonds of the black community. According to Kennedy, Black America is “wildly heterogeneous” and applying a monochromatic standard of blackness to African Americans is harmful to the existence of varying viewpoints and ideologies expressed by members of the community. Ultimately, Kennedy argues, such a stringent test strains the ties that hold African Americans together for collective action. Kennedy espouses a pluralistic vision that allows for the diverse ideological...