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...such attitudes, and the Spanish government has joined the fight back. Secretary of State for Sport Jaime Lissavetzky has proposed reforms to the law ensuring that clubs whose fans exhibit racist behavior face significantly tougher fines, deduction of points or relegation. Powar thinks Spain needs to take a more basic step. "First," he says, "they have to accept they have a problem." Such acknowledgment is what Eto'o encouraged in Zaragoza. Spain, after all, is his home. "I've lived my life in Spain. My son is a Spaniard," he told a press conference. "On the soccer field...
...popular theme in our media. Experts, and the people who write or talk about them, are paid for their knowledge and ability to communicate it,not for being awed by the vast complexity of the machinery of life or shocked by our ignorance of its most basic parts. But I, for one, am amazed that we're here at all. Look at the night sky - absolute zero of space, 200 million degrees of stars - that's what the great, great bulk of the universe is like. Not too conducive to our kind of life...
...goes to show how talented she is, because it’s not autobiographical,” Cohen said, explaining that although the basic premise of the book might have some bearing in Viswanathan’s life, the two girls could not be more different. “All through high school...she was very balanced—she had friends and a social life, she went shopping, she loved going out, and having snowball fights...
...Iranian Students Association (HISA) (primarily graduates) was asked to support the concert. Only when a translator was needed did the organizers bother to contact HISA. The need to defend human rights in Iran is as indisputable as the regime’s long record of torture and suppression of basic freedoms. The rights of women and ethnic and religious minorities are routinely repressed. Prominent activists, such as Akbar Ganji and Roya Toloui, are routinely attacked for dissident opinions. Yet these same human rights activists oppose foreign interference and invasion (including the U.S.’s ongoing economic sanctions), because...
...political commentary, however, does not come from artlessness—there are moments of true beauty and transcendence in the movie. Rather, “V for Vendetta” is destroyed by sheer pettiness. Need a reason for the world’s collapse into anarchy, a basic premise of the movie’s storyline? Easy, blame it on the Iraq war (“America’s war grew worse and worse” the script ominously tells us). Need a ready-made authoritarian figure? Make him white, conservative, and religious, and make his party?...