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...canonization itself is not the problem, Gates believes. He says that "The mindless celebration of difference for its own sake" is no better than "the nostalgic return to some monochrome homogeneity...
...sure, one look in our newsroom does not show the most diverse bunch of faces. Progress can be made, especially with Blacks and Hispanics. Not only do we seek diversity for its won sake--we would like all students to feel welcome to take part in The Crimson--but we realize that this relative lack to diversity has implications. By not having not having people connected with Black and Hispanic communities on campus, our reporting can miss certain nuances of feeling within those communities--not by conspiratorial intention, but by simply not always knowing what's going on or whom...
...disagreed so vociferously that a former Canadian supreme court justice was appointed to see if a new investigation should be opened. The evidence, wrote Justice Willard Estey, "does not support ice contamination." Nevertheless, he advised that further probing would be unfair to the victims' families. "It's for their sake that the case should be reopened," counters George Baker, the Liberal Party Member of Parliament from Gander, who lives one mile (1.6 km) from the crash site...
...baseball." When a fan makes a clean catch, the announcer calls out "Give that fan a contract!" and the ushers actually race over with a "contract" from the team. There were never fights at Memorial, beer-induced or otherwise. Cal Ripken, Jr. still drinks milk, for God's sake! You'll also never catch an Oriole charging money for his autograph. Far from it! Orioles players are required to name a favorite charity upon signing a contract in order to cement each player's relationship with the city. Bleacher seats are $4.00, so that anyone can buy a ticket...
Altman may be a genius, but linear analytical rigor is not his thing. He lives and works amid a genial hurly-burly, with room for all kinds of stray inspirations and serendipitous touches to worm their way into his movies. What Altman pursues is not looseness for its own sake, but surprise -- both for himself and for moviegoers: he didn't know beforehand the tics and shadings performers like Lyle Lovett and Whoopi Goldberg (who play police officers) would bring to their characters, for instance, and the movie-within-a-movie surprise he gives the audience near...