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...ethnicity does matter to voters, why has so little been said about Obama’s background? Perhaps it’s simply too early to begin scrutinizing every aspect of a potential presidential candidate’s profile. (Let’s remember that he hasn’t even decided if he’s going to run in 2008.) Or perhaps Americans are simply more interested in Obama’s positions on Iraq and the economy than in his feelings about being a powerful black leader...
...When my children attended high school in the 1980s, they didn’t know the religion of practically anyone. It simply didn’t matter,” he added...
While the challenge of integration is no laughing matter, Putnam uses humor to explain his findings...
...with visible effort but precision. The large ensemble in the first act does give the stage a cluttered feel that sometimes obscures the important characters. It’s not always apparent where the audience should be looking, but the spectacle is so rich that it hardly seems to matter. Costume and set designer Nicholas Georgiadis was reportedly influenced by Goya. The black costumes of the matadors and red shawls of the women in Act I effectively transport the audience to a lively Spanish tavern. In Act II, however, the Spanish references are completely lost on the audience?...
Even if the impetus for eliminating tolls was intended to be somehow progressive by helping low-wage commuters, toll prices have already been built into housing prices and wages, so it’s clear that this matter did not warrant such extreme action. In a choice to essentially grant a subsidy to either motorists or subway passengers, the state of Massachusetts has chosen the former, and in so doing, demonstrated its backwards priorities...