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...tale most fathers would resist telling a child - maybe even a fully grown one. And the actors have trouble with it. Reynolds can't help looking rather shifty as he relates his story and Breslin, who was so wonderful in Little Miss Sunshine, is obliged to play a standard-issue wise child, the kind of kid moviemakers think charming and audiences often feel like placing under a gag order. It's possible, I think, that Brooks - who wrote Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason- may have wanted to do something in a slightly more serious vein. He seems to want...
...ultimately about tolerance of religious, political, and personal liberty. These are essential human rights, not cultural perks to be sacrificed for expediency. To praise censorship and intolerance in Turkey while decrying it in the western world is to adhere to an unacceptable and unfounded double standard...
...professor at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education and an expert in school desegregation, attributes this finding to Asian Americans having the most integrated educational experiences and attending college at very high rates relative to other groups. Still, he said, the College strives to maintain its standard of diversity. “Harvard has not disproportionately excluded Asian Americans,” Willie said, adding that Asian Americans make up the highest proportion of ethnic minorities at Harvard. “The issue has been whether the white people will take all the goodies. Harvard has decided...
...Mass. Supreme Judicial Court on Friday, according to the Associated Press. Martin Urban, who was charged with the rape of another dental student in 2004, successfully appealed his case in 2006 in part because the presiding judge had not given the jury a clear explanation about the standards used to determine whether an individual is too intoxicated to consent to sex. The court, in supporting the State Appeals Court’s decision to overturn Urban’s conviction, agreed that the standard language used to inform juries about a victim’s ability to consent...
...Mass. Hall. Memorial Church’s gleaming spire rests on bricks ,and Widener has them tucked between its Corinthian columns; even Memorial Hall, which Gomes singled out as the one incongruously gothic building around the yard, is really more of a shotgun wedding between the Georgian standard and an imposing gothic cathedral...