Word: whether
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Amid the fury of the returning Kosovars, however, the Gypsy population as a whole is being targeted for retribution, regardless of whether they actually worked for the Serbs or not. "What?s being done to the Gypsies now is ethnic cleansing ?- it can?t be called by any other name," says Anastasijevic. "It?s directed against an entire ethnic group. And if those responsible this campaign against the Gypsies are allowed to get away with it, it will legitimize further violence against other minorities in Kosovo, such as the Turks...
History and horror, crime and war, sci-fi and sexual transgression. He may have made only 13 feature films in the course of his 46-year career, but Stanley Kubrick covered a range that more prolific filmmakers might--and often did--envy. But whether the films were set in the deep past or the near future, whether their prevailing tone was comic or violent, sly or brutish, weary or idealistic, Kubrick really made the same movie over and over again--vivid, brilliant, emotionally unforgiving, imagistically unforgettable variations on the theme that preoccupied him all his mature life...
...after it finishes she'll be back in Los Angeles to start shooting the new season of Ally McBeal. "There's an intensity in the live experience that is very hard to replicate in any other medium," she says. "It's exciting for the audience and for the actors. Whether you land or not--whether you communicate or not--you know it immediately." She lands...
Suppose that in the three decades since affirmative action has been in place, middle-class black students had brought their SAT scores up to those of whites. We wouldn't be arguing about whether letting more blacks into the best colleges meant lowering standards. But between 1988 and 1998, the gap between average black and white SAT scores widened slightly, from 189 points to 194 points. To Redwood, that is a warning that something has gone terribly wrong with the way we are schooling our children. It's a crisis that affirmative action simply cannot resolve...
...good movie about a tortured fellow who kills lovers in parked cars on the advice of a talking dog. But in Summer of Sam, a kind of Bronx Boogie Nights, Spike Lee has made a very bad movie with David Berkowitz deep in the background. It's mainly about whether a Bronx hairdresser would rat on his best friend if he didn't get fellated by his wife. How do you say "Huh?" in Italian...