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Many students said they thought HRDC should formally encourage directors--through the written guidelines that govern Common Casting--to cast shows without consideration of the actor's race and the character they could possibly play...
...Queen still travels in a gilded stagecoach from Buckingham to Westminster to deliver her speech to the members of parliament, even though the speech is now written by the government and consists of an official outline of its political projects for the new parliamentary session. The speech is still delivered before the House of Lords, even though that chamber ceased to have real power many years ago. An officer in a funny dress still summons the members of the House Commons to listen to the Queen's speech, and the Commons still slam the door in his face and keep...
...adherents like Loving More leader Ryam Nearing prefer to dwell on science. "People are biologically poly," she asserts, noting that polyamory occurs even in societies that punish it by death. Polyamorists love the work of Helen Fisher, a Rutgers University anthropologist and author of Anatomy of Love. Fisher has written that only 16% of cultures on record actually prescribe monogamy; in most, polygamy is sought after by men as a sign of power. Fisher also completed a study of divorce in 62 societies, which revealed that people have a remarkable tendency to split up after just four years. The implication...
Sometimes my main characters are men," he says, "and the script is written from their masculinity--a very testicular movie. But I do prefer to work with women. Maybe that's because when I was young, I was surrounded by strong women, real fighters. This was in La Mancha, a very machista and conservative region. There, the man is a king sitting on his throne. And the women are like the prime minister; they are the ones who govern the house, resolve the problems...
...under a federal law made final last month, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, all sites requesting identifying information from children will soon have to meet strict guidelines. If the website operators intend to post or sell information from a child under 13, they will have to get written or oral parental consent, or use a new kind of digital identification technology...