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Gardner is based on a real character, a bright and ambitious young man who had everything required to succeed--except the right skin color. Do we believe he will triumph? Of course we do; they don't make major motion pictures about uninstructive failures. Do we care about Gardner and son? Oddly, we do, because they are so appealingly played. What more might we wish for them? A movie that's a lot less repetitive...
Moreover, the information and quotes in the final paragraph of the article, wrongly attributed to Young, in fact came from McPherson Professor of Business Administration Regina E. Herzlinger. Young never suggested that then-Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara did not want Anthony to succeed in his effort to develop a new accounting and control system for the military...
...Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Thursday, where Connecticut Democratic Sen. Joseph Lieberman and Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins questioned one of their key recommendations: to open a diplomatic dialogue with Iran. "I'm skeptical that it's realistic to think that Iran wants to help the United States succeed in Iraq," Lieberman said...
...deeply troubled by this decision. Practicing journalism with strings attached isn’t really practicing journalism at all, and to that end, we seek to preserve the tradition of a functionally—and whenever possible, formally—independent collegiate press. If campus newspapers are to succeed in informing readers and training reporters, they must be more than public relations arms of universities, and they cannot operate under the yoke of administrators’ censorship...
...they come as an equal partner with other community groups. They could be an entity unto themselves, but they choose not to do that.” In the end, Harvard’s Gray says that it’s up to customers to determine which stores will succeed in the Square.“There are a lot of people who are upset when a landmark leaves the Square, but some people complain about those places closing but haven’t spent a dollar there in forty years,” he says...