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Chalk up part of The Blind Side's success to a condition that might be called seasonal affection. With the big college teams fighting for conference championships and audiences in a beneficent holiday mood, the mass audience must have figured it was downright Thanksgiving-y to see a real-life uplifter about a crack addict's son who is adopted by a nice white couple and pulls himself up to be a star tackle at Ole Miss. (Sort of Rudy meets Precious.) It doesn't hurt that the movie's subject, Michael Oher, graduated impressively from college...
TIME: You're saying there have been mistakes. Zuma: That's part of the reality we have to look at. It's 15 years into our democracy, and you cannot still say after 15 years, after 20 years, that you are not able to do X, Y and Z. At this point in time, we have to do something extraordinary to make sure we are able to continue to move forward. Admitting your mistakes is also because I believe that honesty is important in politics. You lose nothing by admitting to where there have been weaknesses. When you recognize that...
...Staff writer Melody Y. Hu can be reached at melodyhu@fas.harvard.edu...
...Writer Melody Y. Hu can be reached at melodyhu@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Melody Y. Hu can be reached at melodyhu@fas.harvard.edu...