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...side track, chugging along a bureaucratic road to nowhere. Hanssen's fuming impatience with the patronizing doofuses who have held him back is well, even comically, stated in the script written by Ray in collaboration with Adam Mazer and William Rotko. So is the barely suppressed tension his double life imposes...
...political and social bargaining tool with those outside of it. While black people have infiltrated boardrooms and fashion houses, culturally-black forms of expression have failed to share an equal space with the dictates of mainstream conservative dress. Black hair style has been at the forefront of this tension. While the most accomplished politician may don a strikingly conservative suit, the decision to lock, braid, or straighten hair heightens awareness of blackness, eliciting a variety of reactions. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is praised for her chic designer wardrobe and swift leadership style, but public perception would certainly have been...
...Push People Up The biggest source of conflict in a multicultural society isn't segregation, race or religion - it's money. "The areas where there is the biggest tension in Britain are not the most diverse areas," says the Young Foundation's Mulgan, "but areas where a particular model of male, usually full-time, well-paid employment, has disappeared and been replaced with much less secure employment." Europe's minorities suffer, on average, more than double the rate of unemployment as whites. But a blanket affirmative-action policy like the kind in place in the U.S. is a nonstarter...
Each of these images--from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Mission, The Untouchables, Cinema Paradiso and Malčna--has its own meaning and feeling. But if, during these movies, you feel an elevation of spirit or tension, it's because you've fallen under the spell of Ennio Morricone's music...
...American precedent for the images on the pages of “Zein” and “The 99.” Even so, Teshkeel Media and AK Comics are undertaking culturally productive projects that will benefit their readership.And yet, there seems to be an implicit cultural tension in the grafting of Arab values to American superhero visuals.If both companies seek to provide Arab role models for Arab youths, are their products compromised because they draw so heavily on an American form that embodies numerous American values? Perhaps the inherent problems of this multifaceted identity are muted...