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...President's Initiative on Race. Led by historian John Hope Franklin, the seven-member advisory board has been denounced for political correctness (every member generally favors affirmative action) and censured for not wanting to listen to dissenters (Franklin declined to hear from affirmative action's leading opponent, Ward Connerly). At a recent community gathering in Dallas, which was sanctioned by the panel and led by Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater, the doors were shut and whites kept away. And on the board itself, some members are so frustrated that they've stopped attending meetings regularly. "The President would probably like...
JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN Chairman of race commission gags Ward Connerly. What happened to diversity...
...great opportunity for us," said senior Doug Sproule. "They are a highly regarded team, and this is a great opportunity for us to ward off the early season doldroms, right the boat and set ourselves up for the rest of the season...
...adults to 200 micrograms for men and 180 micrograms for women, because that was the lowest amount that would stave off a nutritional deficiency. At the same time, however, new studies were showing that higher doses of folic acid could prevent crippling birth defects during pregnancy and ward off strokes and heart attacks in older adults. "The recommended levels came down," Apple notes, "just as the evidence for taking higher doses was coming...
...stylistic choices Lumet has made with the film call attention to its lack of content. The sets look artificial and freshly constructed, and there are hardly enough extras milling around to make the ICU resemble an actual hospital ward. At selected moments, all sound other than dialogue is suppressed--people speak in a vacuum as doors slam and gurneys rumble by in utter silence. It's a unnerving device, but by putting a magnifying lens to the dialogue, Lumet only highlights the stilted writing and heightens the sense that he's out of his element...