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...become her son's most important legacy: a hate-crimes bill before Congress called the Matthew Shepard Act. The bill would expand, far too aggressively, the two existing federal hate-crimes laws. One is from 1968; it allows the Federal Government to prosecute crimes committed on the basis of race, religion and national origin when the victim is engaged in public activities like going to school or eating at a restaurant or attending a concert. The other is from 1994; it requires the U.S. Sentencing Commission to increase penalties for crimes on federal lands in which the victim was selected...
Young children have no trouble discussing issues of race while young teens, influenced by social taboos, avoid the topic in social settings, according to a joint study from professors at Harvard Business School and Tufts published last month. The paper, entitled “Learning (not) to talk about race: When older children underperform in social categorization,” is one of two new studies on race written by Business School Professor Michael I. Norton along with lead author Evan P. Apfelbaum, a PhD candidate at Tufts, and Samuel R. Sommers, an assistant professor at Tufts...
...Barack Obama is. We are witnessing something remarkable here: Obama's race is receding as he becomes more familiar. His steadiness has trumped his skin color; he is being judged on the content of his character. But there is a real challenge - and opportunity - inherent in his success. Obama has taken some inspired risks in this campaign. His willingness to propose more governmental control of the health-care market is a prime example. But he has also been very cautious, a typical politician in many ways. The most obvious is in his resolute unwillingness to deliver bad news or make...
Tymoshenko, whose party is far more popular than Yushchenko's, has been campaigning, perhaps with an eye on the 2010 presidential race, in eastern Ukraine - where much of the population inclines more toward Russia than toward the West - and has backed the more Moscow-friendly Party of the Regions headed by Viktor Yanukovych. In last year's parliamentary election, Yanukovych's party polled highest, winning just over one-third of the national vote, but was kept out of power by a renewed coalition between Tymoshenko and Yushchenko...
...immediate challenge for Tymoshenko will be to beat out the Party of the Regions in the race for control of parliament. But such are the divisions among the Ukrainian electorate that no clear winner is likely to emerge from the snap election, and the key question will be, Which two of the three major parties will end up forming a coalition? Tymoshenko cooperated with the Party of the Regions to further eclipse Yushchenko's presidential prerogatives last month and may yet do so again - but the shape of the next government will be settled as much at the polls...