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...that "no one has ever loved me in my life." When love surprisingly appears--or its slick semblance, in the form of a fortune hunter (Jon Tenney)--she comes to realize that if there is a choice between two forms of counterfeit affection, a cash-based passion may be superior to a condescending paternalism. The Heiress is a play of bleak and haunting subtleties...
...suggests a system whereby judges in civil cases can elect to have the help of a jury or not. In highly complicated matters of economic theory or complex interpretation of maritime law, the judge would go it alone, relying on his or her superior knowledge. But in cases where a jury might help, the judge can call...
...word segregation conjures up images of the vicious injustice of the South's Jim Crow laws, with its separate, superior facilities and opportunities for whites. Non-violent demonstrators, freedom riders and students who participated in sit-ins in the struggle for desegregation were spat upon, beaten, maimed and sometimes killed. The term segregation carrier as disgusting legacy of oppression. Using it to describe the actions of minorities today is a nasty reactionary play on words, like calling defenders of civil rights and affirmative action reverse racists...
...INTERESTED IN BURUMA'S commentary on the cult followings that have developed in postwar Japan and elsewhere. All religions, however, have at their core a tenet that insists the individual is secondary to a superior force. So long as we allow others to do our thinking for us, we will continue to be led by those who insist they know best...
Though the Hartford schools may be mired in misery, the state has no obligation to rescue them through integration with the suburban systems. In a case that for six years has been closely followed by civil rights leaders and educators, the Connecticut Superior Court ruled last week that because the state did not create the segregation that now holds sway, it need not take measures to dismantle it. Lawyers for the plaintiffs in the case, Sheff v. O'Neill, who claim that the students are being denied the equal educational opportunity guaranteed by the state constitution, plan to appeal...