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STREEP You can't make a film looking ahead to how it will be read in the future. You just make your own little story about your own particular people. But I do think that five years, 10 years, 20 years from now, you could look at this film and see it authentically as where...
...What's especially worrisome to mental-health experts is that, because of gambling's roots in the region's culture, Asians may be more vulnerable to habitual gambling. The cliché that Asians, and Chinese in particular, love to gamble appears to have anecdotal and statistical support. Hong Kong - which bars casinos but has a $13 billion horse-racing, lottery and sports-book industry - has one of the highest per capita betting averages in the world (about $2,000 annually), according to figures from the Hong Kong Jockey Club. And rates of addiction appear to be higher. A 2004 study...
...scientific advances and technological development, all of which must work in concert. Universities are uniquely positioned to focus on different fronts and possible solutions to our future energy needs, providing both a holistic approach to the problem and the research firepower to tackle it head on. Harvard in particular, with tremendous strengths in the sciences, the social sciences, and the world of policy, is positioned to play a particularly important part...
...them valid, all of them placing the blame somewhere different. I am far more intrigued, however, by the different responses of my schoolmates in the days that followed. As a black student, I know that what I say about race will be understood by many to carry a particular bias on this issue. But the truth is that this issue does concern race: not because of the large police presence at a party hosted by a black student group, and not because a black student is talking about it. It is a racial issue because of who threw the party...
...four days before. At free speech tables following the march, students coordinated coalitions and outlined visions. Whereas the first rally demonstrated the hollowness of the representative ideal, the second embodied the kind of conception of democracy we urgently need. The contrast between campaign politics and grassroots organizing is particularly instructive in highlighting the follies of working within the system in order to change society. The conventional defense of this tactic rests upon its pragmatism: Based on the idea that positions of power enable the powerful to affect policy in substantive, lasting ways, the argument is that good people can rule...