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Reviewing the movie for Slant, Aaron Cutler goes further: "The ultimate NFL destination renders the whole thing benevolently sadistic: A white community first removes Michael from other black people, then trains him to beat them up on the field." Well, The Blind Side isn't exactly Gladiator. Oher is being paid well to do what hundreds of thousands of young men dream of. And if he had been left on the streets of Memphis, he might be dead now. But for all the closeups of black-white handshakes, the movie does have a Manichean view of the racial divide...
...miles southeast of Copenhagen, where world leaders will meet next week in a landmark conference on climate change, sits the southern Indian village of Toranagallu. While the residents of this mostly rural hamlet may not realize it, the same environmental problems they grapple with in their daily lives may well be on the table at the U.N.'s Copenhagen conference, as attendees decide whether to overhaul an international carbon-trading mechanism designed to help developing nations cut greenhouse gases...
While your story was well written and researched, it pretty much overlooked all but rich, suburban whites. What world is the writer living in? Certainly not the inner New York City one in which I teach college--the real, food-insecure world that represents the 21st century American experience for many of us. Most working parents I know are too busy trying to put food on the table to have time for "overparenting...
HUPD eventually came to the rescue by briefly closing the bank. Though no one could leave or enter the bank, tellers continued to make transactions for those customers still in the bank as well as new customers waiting outside. How? We're a bit puzzled by that...
...Harvard, Bjork, who is teaching organic chemistry at the Extension School this semester, has conducted research exploring the anti-cancer effects of certain antibiotics and producing ethanol in bacteria as a possible source of renewable energy with Harvard Medical School genetics professors Jack Szostak and George M. Church as well as ry professor Andrew G. Myers...