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Whatever the reasons for it, this public backlash against the successful is an intriguing and powerful phenomenon which, regardless of its occasional unfairness, at least makes good copy. We may need villains to root against as much as we need heroes to cheer for, and who better to wear the black hat than those people or organizations that the public made famous and successful in the first place...
Altman has taken equal care animating all of these (and other) characters, regardless of their time on stage. She places Angels in America where it belongs: in a complete moral universe of heroic risks, mutable ethics and terrible punishments. Altman's most recent directing project, last spring's revival of Mamet's Oleanna, was a wobbly production that tried to let its controversial subject matter speak for itself; it didn't. Here, however, she shows a sureness of perspective that recalls that other Altman, Robert, the filmmaker behind the human panoramas of Short Cuts and Nashville, and whose name...
...given that the poor typically have fewer opportunities, and further given that children who are read to wield an advantage, the issue clearly lies not in race, but rather in class. The poor with fewer opportunities will on average suffer in competing with richer counterparts, and this is true regardless of race...
...continually and freely uses terms like "opportunity," "rich" and "poor" in describing races, arguing that "whites and Asians have more opportunities." Lin is blind to the simple fact that it is rich whites and Asians who have more opportunities, not whites and Asians regardless of socio-economic background. Rich blacks and Hispanics can take Kaplan courses. Poor whites and Asians cannot...
...those upset with the investment argue that the University--regardless of its particular strategy--has placed itself in a compromising position by investing in companies like Playboy...