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Martyrology 101
It's an elective course.
In her latest column, "Teen Terror," Dahlia Lithwick ponders the similarities between a teenager and a terrorist. While noting many commonalities—or, perhaps, overlaps—between the two categories, Lithwick believes that, "because teenage boys with grudges are fundamentally different from adult men with liquid explosives, we should resist the lure of using terror laws to prosecute them."
Several readers disagree that American high-schoolers with dreams of mass homicide are different in nature from Islamic terrorists bent on mayhem and destruction. HLS2003 doesn't think Lithwick's case adds up:
The only analysis she does offer contradicts her assertion. After all, what is the difference between Timothy McVeigh and Mohammed Atta, other than one's motivation by Nazi fascism and one's motivation by a form of religious fascism? They were both terrorists and they both wanted to kill a lot of people. And how old do you think many of these terrorists are, Dahlia? Are they all thirty-somethings who have gotten past the pimply stage? Or are many young and impressionable teens just like your alleged victims here?
Another practicing attorney, carolfb, explains the legal doctrine of "terroristic threat":
While modern "terrorism as a political weapon" has changed our use of words, people have been terrorizing other people for millenia. "Terroristic threat" is not a new idea springing from the world-wide-war-on-terror, but an old concept in criminal law. While I would agree the teens you discuss are not "terrorists" as the word is used today, their actions (if proven) do indeed constitute "terroristic threats".
A terroristic threat is any credible threat that terrorizes another. [...] Depending on where you live, there are historical artifacts in these statutes. In Georgia, a terroristic act includes burning a cross or other symbol with the intent to terrorize another or another's household. Depending on the seriousness of the threat, the charge can be a misdemeanor or felony. [...]
My experience with terroristic threats comes primarily from representing women in domestic violence cases. [...] The goal in these crimes is the same goal as international terrorism, writ small. The abuser wants to control "his" woman. She won't challenge him so long as she is afraid of him. Usually VERY afraid of him. [...]
The teens you describe are also seeking to control those around them -- perhaps for different reasons but with the same tool -- terror. I agree that these kids are not international terrorists a la Osama Bin Laden. They are, however, mixed up adolescents who are INTENDING to scare the pants off other folks. That is the whole point of these activities: hurt or kill some folks, TERRORIZE lots more. The criminal code does and should address not only the physical assault, but the "terroristic threat".
Clown_Nose agrees there's a difference between American teenagers and Islamic terrorists but wants to close the gap as quickly as possible:
Why doesn't the United States take advantage of the teen angst like the Islamists do?
It seems to me that we know that suicide is a leading cause of death for teens. Islamists take advantage of this by telling these teens that it is God calling them to kill infidels.
Instead of using psychologists to try (and fail) to fix this defect, why don't we seize the opportunity and send these people over seas to blow up terrorist cells? They are going to die anyway, we might as well get some value out of it. [...] Lets jump on the bandwagon and use some losers too.
Dayenu not only believes we should treat murderous students as terrorists, she's prepared to take out the stateside sponsors who harbor them:
It does seem that one element is missing from this equation. It would probably be a good idea to prosecute and lock up parents who exist in such a moral vacuum that they could watch their kids assemble arsenals and do nothing.
As long as we're talking categorically, FoxyGoth notes that homicidal kids draped in black aren't really Goth.
Several posters write in to help explain the difference between the Columbine shooters and international terrorists. Eigenvector argues for an intuitive approach: "Yeah the line is grey, faintly grey, but don't we have enough definitions of killer so that we don't have to pile on to the latest fad in bloodshed?" Angharad fingers ideology as the relevant factor.
There are also some interesting variants on the theme of blaming society for homegrown child terrorists. Luchese puts the prosecutors of seriously wayward youth into the docket:
Children and adolescents are not adults. They should never even be considered such in a court. But this society has become punitive, vengeful and rigid in its own obsession to achieve "justice" through the courts. Trying American children or adolescents as terrorist is barbaric, abominable and counter productive to what the real issues are; human understanding, compassion and prevention. But when the adults who promulgate this form of retribution it indicates they are still attempting to resolve their own childhood and adolescent anger, fear and depression and have given up. It is therefore projected onto the victim and then it is simple human sacrifice to bring, in the long run, a short term solution.
BenK has a strangely compelling argument for pinning teen terrorism on FDR's New Deal:
My mind turns to ways to solve their basic problem. For instance: get them out of school, into jobs they can be proud of, where they can prove themselves, perhaps attract girls, and relieve themselves of the depression and anxiety that may largely be the fault of FDR's misguided attempts to reduce unemployment by forcing employable young men back into school and out of the work force.
Discussion is off to an excellent start in the Jurisprudence Fray. Come on in and join us. GA …12:00am PDT
Sunday, August 13, 2006
The Dear Prudence Fray has been atwitter this weekend over the curious case of the duplicate letter. In Thursday's column, Prudie responded to a letter from a teacher that had appeared, verbatim, in an earlier column for Salon, by Cary Tennis. Salon's author apparently jumped into the Fray to share some thoughts on the overlap.
As long as you're comparing advisers, Fraywatch is pleased to note the return of the Fray's own shadow Prudence—star poster doodahman. Several years ago, the weekly feature "My Two Cents" was a must-read for followers of Dear Prudence. These newly reminted pennies haven't lost their luster while out of circulation:
Dear Post Graduate Curse:
First year teaching, eh? Hell, lady, you didn't waste much time, huh? MTC needs to put out a disclaimer here. His first foray into actual adult style sex occurred after graduation at the national debate tournament, in the front seat of the car of the coach from another high school. He made it to quarter finals and crossed the plate in the same event.
As a result, MTC considers post-graduation dalliances between teachers and students to be not only acceptable, but A-OK, wink wink, nod nod. In fact, high school forensic teams may have been the very hotbed of sexual activity between students and teachers. doodahman's own coach put the moves on him and other team members more than once, and ultimately ran off with another student a year or two later-- leaving behind a husband and two babies.
So, you're hardly alone. Stop beating yourself up.
A lot of folks will respond with absurd and hyperbolic charges that you're some kind of predator, a pervert, a corrupter of youth. Don't believe a word of it. You are a teacher. What was your little tryst other than teaching? Hell, in this day and age, the kid probably taught you a thing or two. If nothing else, you helped take the steam out of an 18 year old sexual locomotive before it ran over some innocent girl unprepared for the responsibilities of sex. As far as MTC is concerned, you madam, are, if not a saint, surely someone's godsend.
Of course, this is a minority view, and should this affair come to light, it may cause you some professional problems. Fortunately, not legal ones, but problems nonetheless. That'll be the case depending on the maturity of your punky paramour. If he's immature, he'll shoot his mouth off sooner or later and then it's Katie-bar-the-door time. But if he has a degree of maturity that befits somebody qualified to diddle your syllabus, he ought to remain discrete. But, it's a risk you run every time you pick a lover from the junior varsity. Considering that you pulled this the first year on the job, your lust for the boys is something you need to control (as opposed to "stay on top of").
That's for the future, though. For now, don't worry about the past-- you did good girl.
Fans may wish to check out doodahman's other recent entries here , here, and here.
Have you ever thought about trying your own hand as an advice columnist? Well, there's no need to compete with Prudence! Dolph would like to know "how do you conduct a funeral for a man who said that he didn't believe in God?" mtntraveler is trying to decide "should text messages be considered cheating?" If you're of sound mind and bawdy, we could use your advice in the Dear Prudence Fray. GA …12:00am PDT
Thursday, August 10, 2006
Based on Ned Lamont's narrow victory over incumbent Joe Lieberman in Connecticut's senatorial primary, Jacob Weisberg's prediction of the Democratic Party's retreat into 1970s McGovernite leftism on matters of foreign policy (and with it, electoral doom) provoked an unusually strong reaction, both in tone and quantity of posts.
A spate of fraysters reject the analogy with Vietnam-era liberalism. Samphire calls this an oversimplification, while for doodahman, Weisberg's comparison marks an abrupt about-face for a journalist who has spent the last three "years of this war telling us how it ain't nothing like Vietnam."
Rabin dismisses fears of neo-isolationism among Democrats as a straw-man argument, unless Weisberg can identify by name the Democratic politicians who actually fit this label, as "people who want to withdraw from Iraq (Feingold, Lamont, Kerry, etc) are not isolationists. None of these people want a radical change in foreign policy outside of Iraq. They're all pro-Israel, they're all pro-US intervention in some areas, they all take the threat of islamic terrorism seriously. One of the largest reasons used for supporting withdrawal is that American presence in Iraq hurts the WoT and resources could be much better spent elsewhere."
ShanCan similarly demands evidence of this radical left-wing contingent: "By evidence I mean something besides our lack of support for Bush's failed policies in the middle east, and our utter disgust at his exploitation of the fears of ordinary citizens in order to gain support for his policies that do nothing to make us safer (policies which arguably make us less safe) while simultaneously ignoring or blocking activities and policies that might actually improve the security of our nation?"
For his part, ElFool picks apart the false dichotomy in Weisberg's characterization of the Lamont camp: "seeing Iraq as a politicized right-wing response is not mutually exclusive with taking terrorism seriously."
In Byron_Raum's formulation, the "anti-war" label applies in earnest only to a very small pacifist minority that does not include the Lamont faction. Instead, there are really "two war camps":
One is, by far, the most belligerent. It's a war against anyone who happens to look like an Arab or a Muslim. It's run by people who are unable to distinguish between bin Laden, a terrorist religious fanatic, and Saddam Hussein, a secular, anti-religion fascist dictator. Hey, they are all Arabs, right?
These are not exactly neocons themselves, but these are the neocons' "useful idiots." In this camp also fall the pro-Israelis, who as a people suffer from the paranoid delusion that anyone who criticizes them has the ultimate goal of exterminating every Jew. In other words, only an anti-Semite would criticize a Jew.
To some extent, given their history, I can sympathize, but indulging them fully is far too expensive and destructive of other human lives. Eventually, if they are left unfettered, this means the extermination of everyone who is not a Jew, because every Jew is a human being, and therefore imperfect.
Quite obviously, a lot of people do not take this war seriously because it is assinine in the extreme.
We are the "other" war lobby, believing that we need to have a war of extermination with terrorists and fanatics. The difference is that we are extremely specific about who we paint with this brush, realizing that people are all pretty much the same; give someone a chance to live a dignified life in peace, and they will live a dignified life in peace. This means a pansy-like worrying about the sensitivites of Muslims, because we want them to feel that we care about them, and that it's a good idea for them to be moderate. It means respecting their dignities and freedoms, treating them and everyone else with decency, in order to get at the terrorists that hide in their midst. We are not willing to sacrifice our freedoms, the freedoms that our fathers paid for in blood. We believe that a competent Administration would be capable of finding terrorists without needing to pry into everything and having the ability to detain anyone at random.
The bottom line is, our war is much less expensive than theirs, and more importantly, it does not leave the world in ruin and the Constitution in tatters. We support the war on terror. We are just not willing to accept your broad definitions of what a terrorist is.
Metacom criticizes the Beltway establishment's reading of the tea leaves:
What we have in Connecticut is that the more liberal party in a liberal state has decided that it doesn't like the way Lieberman has behaved. This doesn't translate to a national movement. Look at what happened to Cynthia McKinney in Georgia.
She has two things in common with Joe Lieberman, a sense of entitlement, and a primary loss. Other than that, they are quite different. McKinney has been far to the left and an outspoken critic of President Bush's foreign policy.
Lieberman is closer to the center on many issues and he has been a defender and facilitator of Bush's foreign policy.
Yet they both lost. Why? Because politics and political views are local.
If Tuesday says anything about the national mood, it's that incumbents are in trouble.
DeanC offers the opposite diagnosis (from Weisberg) of the election's significance for the country:
similar to what was supposed to happen when we invaded Iraq, Americans across the country have seen an outbreak of democracy in Connecticut and are going to be energized by this act of anti-incumbent, anti-Bush success and be inspired to do the same-- in short, causing a domino effect across the United States.
By contrast, Classicsman diminishes the importance of Connecticut as "after all a very small place, and perhaps the bluest of the blue states. To accept as an axiom that what happened there in a primary hijacked (and maybe hacked as well) by extreme anti-war elements is somehow a harbinger of things to come nationwide is laughably sophomoric."
USARST, rejecting the prediction of doom for the Democrats, blames Lieberman's loss on his "inching his way away from the core democratic party values for some time now":
His membership and high profile stance in the DLC, for example, tell us much about his democratic credentials. To explain and then forecast his defeat as some larger march towards political obscurity for Democrats ignores the fact that Joe was out of touch with his constituents and their views. An increasingly anti-war constituency is understanding that our ability to do much of anything, be it domestic or international, has been sidetracked by the disaster that is Iraq. The reasons for going in were disingenuous and the "plan" for victory is non-existant. It is time for some payback for those that continue to support this nonsense and Joe is most deserving of this for his support for the President on this and other issues.
Chauncy agrees that this election was about more than one issue, including Lieberman's "view toward privatizing social security, supporting corporate interests, and allowing Supreme Court nominees to remain filibuster free." That said, "I also feel that too much credit is being given to the bloggers. In my neighborhood, I don't know of too many people that keep up with the blogs. Rightwing talk radio, yes, blogs no. The blogs still seem to be wonky and insulated to me. Yes they affect discourse, but so do the MSM and radio."
Lamont's candidacy reaks of opportunism more than idealism, from mallardsballad's standpoint:
It doesn't take million dollar consultants to figure out that a very blue state with an established but aloof senator makes an opportune target for those that have the money, a sense of adventure and greedy ambition…
Could it possibly be that the tasty yet empty issue of war be a line used to feed Lamont's own rich boy ambition of being a senator?
…the Senate seat is just a stepping stone for personal ambitions and the issue of war is a big hallow plank used as a convenient shortcut to get through the muddy political bog and to that Senate stepping stone.
The Big Idea Fray is an embarrassment of riches at the moment, generating more intelligent debate than can be summarized in this column. For all of Weisberg's detractors here, it's worth noting that his interpretation of Lieberman's defeat is echoed by Jonah Goldberg's Los Angeles Times op-ed and Thomas B. Edsall's article in The New Republic. AC …4:50pm PDT
Friday, August 4, 2006
Jacob Weisberg's analysis of why sanctions don't work prompted this response from Derek Tonkin, former British ambassador to Thailand (1983-86), essentially affirming Weisberg's view of the situation in Burma:
Sanctions have only made the situation worse, entrenched the military regime in power, and delayed the deliverance of the Burmese people from their misfortunes. Yet you have Senator Mitch McConnell assuring the Senate on 26 July 2006 when supporting the renewal for another three years of the sanctions contained in the "Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act 2003" that: "The Burmese people want these sanctions because they want democracy, justice and freedom, and we stand with them." Although it is true that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, whom I met in December 1999, has for her own reasons supported sanctions, I have met no-one during my visits to Burma who thought that sanctions were helping them achieve freedom, and I can only marvel at the Senator's assertion which is not supported by any empirical or anecdotal evidence, naturally in the absence of any opinion polls.
Artlessdodger assesses the effectiveness of the Cuban model:
The first problem with using Cuba as a model for the failure of sanctions is that for most of the period we've had sanctions against Castro's regime, they've had an outside benefactors to take our place, first the Soviet Union for almost 30 years, then Chavez whose support in recent years has allowed Castro to move away from market reforms tentatively put in place in the 90s. North Korea is also dependent on outside help from China. Zimbabwe lacks substantial outside aid, and Mugabe's regime is clearly the more vulnerable than Cuba, or North Korea. Though aside from his delusions, Mugabe actually doesn't have foreign enemies deadset on seeing him overthrown either.
I suspect the real reason for Castro's success, aside from his genuinely impressive healthcare system, is geography, that so many would be dissidents simply leave the island. IT really is difficult to foment a coup when access to the island is so limited. Besides, since the 60s Cuba has been seen as more of an annoyance than a threat, so the goal of overthrowing Cuba hasn't been a high priority since then. The sanctions have been fairly effective in discouraging the Cuban model. They've contributed to the impoverishment of the island. The sanctions show other governments, and other people in Latin America, the heavy cost of choosing an adverserial with the United States. That's part of why communism never really caught on in the Western hemisphere.
the_slasher14 notes that, in terms of its social makeup, Iran lacks the "racial divide" that made South Africa so internally resistant to reform. Furthermore, "once it becomes obvious that the mullahs are presiding over a system where the standard of living is going to drop sharply as long as they're around, it is unlikely Iranians will spend a generation dithering over what to do." legas is more skeptical, given Iran's possession of "a highly fungable resource" in the midst of a world energy crisis.
For certainly, there is stability in hypocrisy, with ineffective boycotts benefiting both sides politically in favor of the status quo:
The result of our imposition of sanctions is usually a very stable state: our government has pleased the general population by expressing its disapproval of the dictator, and the dictator has earned an external enemy that he can rally his own people against.
The people of both countries respond with nationalistic support of our side in this peaceful conflict, and with no actual military activity, and no economic interaction to destabilize either side, this can go on forever, at least in political terms. Thus we propped up the Ayatollah, andSaddam and Castro, and now we can add Chavez to the list.
Of course, all of this posturing is very hypocritical. Our multinationals create foreign subsidiaries that do business with those disfavored regimes (Halliburton, while Cheney was CEO, had a subsidiary that did oilfield development work in Iran). And smart people in our government are well aware that our imposition of sanctions strengthens the internal political position of the dictator. But it does tend to freeze any expansion and limit any major offenses by the dictators (notable exceptions: Cubans in Angola and Saddam in Kuwait). And the US politicians look like they are doing "something", and that something is very low risk.
So we have supported Castro in Cuba for 45-odd years, and we so overplayed our hand in Iraq that Saddam actually thought we'd let him take Kuwait. And North Korea, and Iran seem like they will go on forever.
But the Cubans in Miami are happy. That's what really matters.
Contribute your insights in The Big Idea. Don't forget to check out the latest posts on Gibsongate in Fighting Words and Hollywood. AC … 8:06pm PDT
Tuesday, August 1st, 2006
In her latest column, Dahlia Lithwick evaluates the validity of privacy claims made by Robert Steinbuch, counsel to Sen. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, after Steinbuch's affair with a D.C. office intern was widely publicized on the Internet, causing him "humiliation and anguish."
The piece was inflammatory enough to prompt Steinbuch's lawyer Jonathan Rosen, writing under JSRosen, to contest alleged inaccuracies in Slate's reporting.
yggy systematically tears down the plaintiff's case on the following grounds:
First, what Cutler wrote and said is substantively true. Second, Steinbuch is himself a borderline public figure. His actions do reflect on Sen. Mike DeWine and are therefore privy to the public. Third, Cutler did not identify Steinbuch by name. She could have perhaps been slyer than "RS," and if she had been there would be no case today, but any number of people inside the Beltway could share those initials.
Rejecting "Lithwick's half-hearted effort to prop up a straw woman of 'political interest,' " rundeep disagrees with yggy's viewpoint: "the fact that salacious information has a high readership is hardly indicative of its value to political or public discourse."
While showing little sympathy for Steinbuch, MomboMan-3 outlines a possible recourse for the plaintiff: "go after the money she is making from books, HBO and Playboy. After all, her story is a story because she had a relationship with him, therefore his is entitled to a portion of the gains from that relationship. Without her sex partners, she has no story, and no monetary value."
On the question of privacy and personal experience, Merritt30 makes a liberal free speech argument:
To my non-legal mind, at least, it seems like there is a crucial difference between Cutler describing something she may have heard about Steinbuch and something that she personally experienced with Steinbuch. She was not merely repeating gossip that she heard from a third party or describing something she had seen through a hidden camera; she was talking about her own experience.
It seems to me that one should be free to talk about one's own personal experiences pretty much without legal restriction (except perhaps if the event were specifically intended as a set-up to embarrass someone, e.g. a candid-camera type situation). Otherwise, say, it would be possible for an abuser to sue his victim if she were to publish an account of his "private" behavior. One's right to publish a memoir or autobiography of any sort would be in question.
HLS2003, in a free-wheeling reflection on sex, blogs, and self-control, invokes the Fourth Amendment to reason that "if a person can have his deepest secrets recorded, turned over to the government, and used to convict him of a crime because he chose his confidants unwisely, then it only seems reasonable that some dumbass who decided to arrange booty calls with a girl he barely knew should have to take the risk that she's the type to screw-and-tell."
CaLawyer worries more broadly about creating a tort of gossip:
Everyone believes in 'the right of privacy', but everyone has a different concept of it. Everyone has secrets, and we view it as a violation of our own personal autonomy when these secrets are revealed to people we'd rather not have know about them, or revealed indiscriminately…
Yes, there is such thing as a tort of "Public Disclosure of Private Facts". It is ill-defined, largely because we're not sure what constitutes "Private facts", and we're not sure at what point a prohibition against the disclosure of private facts intrudes on my right to speak…if you read Supreme Court cases, they talk about political speech receiving the highest level of protection, but I think that idea has not been thought through fully. Most people's lives are not consumed with talk of politics. Most people's everyday conversations revolve around themselves, their friends, their family, and what's going on in their lives. In other words, gossip. If I had to worry about being sued every time I let something slip that a friend of mine told me but which they considered "private", I would be reluctant to talk at all, except about politics. And I don't want to live in a country where the only way I can avoid being sued is to sound like a C-SPAN groupie.
Contribute your thoughts in Jurisprudence. AC … 6:30pm PDT
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Using one school's attempt to ban chocolate as a case study in the futility of "market suppression," Tim Harford's article opened up a classic conservative/liberal divide, with questions of personal choice vs. government intervention dominating The Undercover Economist Fray.
FBH echoes many readers in calling for more parental involvement. Father of two daughters, Ripley bemoans the bad nutritional choices induced by government-subsized lunch programs. Also a frustrated parent, Dayenu laments how "schools peddle this junk and then demand that we control our children if we don't want them to eat it… Meanwhile, they're suggesting that young kids, whose impulse-control skills when it comes to eating should hardly be expected to rival those of adults, should walk past junk food… How about paying a bit more, charging a bit more, and serving good, healthful hot lunches?"
Wary of yet more regulation headed her way, katbsd promises "during the next school year to take even more time away from teaching math to check lunches, snacks, and lockers for contraband candy!"
Of banning chocolate, AshleyMiller says "if the school systems are smart, they will focus more on nutritional education rather than ban sweets…just because candy is available does not mean that a person has to eat it."
As a matter of precision, RPC points out that there is a difference "between 'banning' something and not selling something. Should schools ban chocolate? I don't think so. If parents choose to send their kids in with chocolate, so be it. Should schools sell chocolate? No. But that is not a 'ban.' "
For his part, run75441 questions the implicit equivalence between the commodities Snickers = Chuckles = Heroin??? discussed in Harford's article.
texasman1 takes a more libertarian approach and moreover admires the entrepreneurial spirit of the young boy selling banned candies to his classmates. What could be more American than that? AC ... 5:38pm PDT
Friday, July 21, 2006
Ross Douthat's appraisal of M. Night Shyamalan's directing career to date stirred up passions both for and against in Culturebox.
Sledgeh101 thinks Douthat, "in trying to defend M. Night's post-6th Sense movies, is trying a little too hard to see the silver lining in the blackening clouds." Read additional commentary here.
For amble, Shymalan's self-directed American Express commercial is demonstrative enough of his overly inflated ego:
Shymalan's self-mythologizing, and achingly pretentious American Express commercial was, quite literally, queeze-inducing, and is reason alone to dislike him.
As a counterpoint, it was such a relief--and a hilarious one--to see that Wes Anderson chose the exact opposite route and made a commercial making fun of pretentious directors. Just to re-iterate for those who didn't see it: in Shymalan's commercial he can't even eat at a super-fancy restaurant without being recognized and bothered--ha ha ha--by the staff, who all looooove his movies. And meanwhile, he is fanatasing about ideas essentailly ripped off from Rod Sterling because, as we mortals should know, his mind works differently than ours does.
Whatever we might think of his movies, Jaque notes how successfully the director has cultivated his own name as a brand:
Whether we like M. Night Shyamalan or not, he his already a phenom. Just look at all the posts on Slate. Just about everyone is able to not only recall all the movies made my him, but is also able to critique them in great depth! How many modern Directors have this effect?
Look at the this Summer's biggest block buster - Pirates. How do most people indentify this movie? Johny Depp. Or may be Disney.
Now contrast this with North By North West. Most people will identify this as a Hitcock movie inspite of the big name presence of Cary Grant!
The same is true for Sixth Sense and Unbreakable. Both with big name presence of Bruce Willis. But by and large we don't lable it as "Bruce Willis movie." That is what M. Night has achieved. A mark on the movie industry.
Cinematic history will be kind to Shyamalan, predictsS_MargaretPrima:
I believe that as much as Shyamalan is getting a critical flogging now, he's due to be re-evaluated in a decade or two. Don't get me wrong, I don't uniformly admire all of his movies and I can see why critical opinion has turned on him. He may have stretched the collective credulity by flogging the 'twist ending' too much, all the while allowing the marketing of his movies to turn him into a one-gimmick director. But at least for Sixth Sense, Unbreakable and yes, even Signs (I have not seen the Village nor Lady in the Water) I have never seen better character development or a more masterful setting of tone. His films are somber, suspenseful and yet profoundly sad, eliciting performances from his actors that you wouldn't expect.
Memo from hcd to Shyamalan, cc: studio executives:
The criticism M. Night is garnering is because he wants to be feted as a real live Homer, but there obviously isn't a conspiracy to deprive him of the money necessary to make his mostly enjoyable, always overreaching, possibly overly well regarded films. He's gotten a phenomenal amount of support already. If anything, his apparent inability to take the gentlest of hints is what will prevent him from closing that gap between his ambition and execution. But it seems foolish to fault the film industry in all this, as though they're preventing his dream movie that can only be done with just a little more fawning and a few more millions.
Off to see Lady in the Water myself. AC … 7:40pm PDT
Monday, July 17, 2006
Richard Ford's piece on gay marriage got an intense drubbing in the Jurisprudence Fray, with much scrutiny directed at his central claim that "a hunger for distinctive sex roles is just not the same thing as anti-gay bigotry."
In a lengthy diatribe, Rrhain explains how anxiety over gender roles is at the root—or at the very least, a displaced symptom—of homophobia:
Despite protestations to the contrary, "a hunger for distinctive sex roles" is precisely anti-gay bigotry and the reason why is that gays inherently cross those roles ...
And this connects directly to marriage due to the fundamental purpose of marriage: Legitimization of a sexual relationship. Marriage has changed quite a bit over the years, but the one thing that remains constant throughout its history is the sexual relationship that is created between the participants. To this day, one of the reasons you can get a marriage annuled is that the two have never had sex…
And this is why we see the homophobes drawing the line at marriage even though they don't have nearly as much of a problem with employment, housing, education, military service, etc.: Marriage forces them to consider sexual activity between people of the same sex. Working at a job, paying the rent, going to school, serving in the military, none of those things are sexual in nature. But marriage? That's got sex written all over it. What is the symbol by which we show the world that the marriage has been solemnized and made legitimate? That's right, by an act of physical intimacy: The couple kisses. And then we send the couple off on a honeymoon so that they can have lots and lots of sex.
A self-identified straight woman who eschews conventional gender roles in her own marriage, Janessa lectures Ford on "Womens Studies 101":
Underlying homophobic attitudes is fear of divergent gender identities. It is impossible to consider sexual orientation without considering gender presentation and identity. This is like, Womens Studies 101 (but maybe Ford skipped that class in college since it was only for ladies).
Gay men and women have been discriminated against and subject to medical, behavior, and disciplinary intervention so that their gender presentation more explicitly matched their biological gender…Compulsory heterosexuality, exemplified by "one man one woman" marriage, is one of the stalwart elements of gender discipline…
It is completely befuddling why Ford thinks that some straight people's clinging to violently, legally policed gender roles is somehow more okay than hating gay people for some mysterious "other" way of hating gays. In fact, his description of straight anti-gay marriage activists' attitudes sounds like my definition of homophobia straight up -- the belief that women should get f----- by men, and men should f--- women, and anything else is icky and scary.
More to the point, badtequila asks why sexism is somehow more palatable or excusable than homophobia tout court.
For Catorce, Ford fails to appreciate the difference between government marriage and religious marriage:
Religious marriage is caught up in all manner of dogma and tradition detailing very specific gender roles for a husband and wife. When you accept religious marriage, you are supposedly also accepting the religion's version of the roles that come along with it. But Government marriage is only a distribution of the same exact benefits to two people. Your own sex is irrelevant. Your partner's sex is irrelevant. No government benefit of marriage is gender related. And you accept no gender "role" when you have the government sanction your marriage."
In a sentiment perhaps typical of fair-minded social moderates, OldGrouch expresses his slight revulsion at the idea of gay marriage but in practice argues for social tolerance.
kd1084 points to marriage as a historically malleable concept and institution. mallardsballard carefully outlines the historical origins of marriage and concludes that "if one rests purely on conservative tradition, the answer [for opposing gay marriage] is, because it has never been done that way before."
For those despondent over recent developments on the gay-marriage front, Peter Beinart of The New Republic offers a more uplifting take here. AC… 6:59pm PDT
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Ezra Klein's diagnosis on "the medical malpractice myth" and positive evaluation of a reform proposal by Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama brought medical professionals, public policy analysts, and consumer advocates all out of the woodwork.
courtgrunt, a civil-court clerk, scrolls through his county's database of pending cases and finds four medical malpractice suits (out of a random sample of 500), leading him to conclude "there aren't even close to as many medical malpractice lawsuits filed as the media (or extreme right wingers) would like us to believe."
By contrast, claiming that Slate "slants the whole issue as if malpractice were as mythological as unicorns," MomboMan-3 lists a series of points underscoring the very real problem facing doctors today.
Luchese laments that patients are now numbers:
In over two decades of Obstetrics I found that communication with the patient not only humane and professional but allayed questions and concerns about treatment and outcome. Most physicians do not communicate with their patients and hence suffer lawsuits because of feelings of abandonment or subterfuge on the part of the patient. The profession is now driven by technology, money and productivity. Patients are no longer people but numbers. Furthermore the burden to healthcare now and will be those illnesses and diseases caused by lifestyle; obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, smoking, and those resulting from society; stress, depression, anxiety, insomnia. All the technology, training and malpractice insurance cannot change this.
But antsi, an obstetrician "for almost ten years," attests to having "seen the pernicious effects of malpractice litigation first hand. Reading this article, I feel like a swimmer being told by someone standing on dry land that the water isn't wet." Read his objections here.
An indignant ShanCan blasts the lack of transparency in the medical profession:
Why is it that any Taco Bell has to be regularly inspected, get a letter grade, and have it posted for all the world to see but it is virtually impossible for me to find out the safety record of the cardiac surgeon who is going to slice me open and literally hold my heart in his hands? Why is it that I can lose my driver's license after a series of violations in which no one is harmed, but a physician can keep his medical license regardless of how many deaths s/he contributes to simply by paying a higher insurance premium, so long as the errors are deemed to be accidental and not negligent? Why is it legal for a doctor or hospital to cover up their lethal mistakes with a pile of money and a confidentiality clause? It is not a secret to anyone who actually reads the literature that the problem is not a rash of frivolous lawsuits but a rash of dangerous doctors and hospitals with no real accountability beyond their own consciences. Kudos to Clinton and anyone else who proposes an idea that may solve a legitimate problem in a way that benefits the public rather than a small interest group like - but good luck getting something so practical and potentially effective through the legislative process.
rcf broadens the debate on medical malpractice costs to include all the players: "Realize doctors are not the only medical providers who make errors. Nurses do, clerks do, aides do, lab techs do, PA's do. Such an error no matter who makes it can lead to a cascade of subsequent errors." Read his reform proposal here.
For Dayenu, the point of medical malpractice cases is "to make patients (or their survivors) whole again. They are not designed to improve health care. In fact, in some ways they fail to do just that, by convincing policymakers that a lawsuit solves the problem for the next patient, when it doesn't. In the first place, the problem isn't just paying claims, it's the cost of medical malpractice insurance. In the second place, is there any proof that malpractice cases do anything to improve health care to individual patients or even stop individual bad doctors from practicing medicine?"
michaeltwatson, author of America's Tunnel Vision—How Insurance Companies' Propaganda Is Corrupting Medicine and Law, writes in to make a plug for his book and deplore the prevalence of medical error.
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Though it's a big factor in the lore of the job and we see it a number of times in cutscenes involving them, why doesn't our eye glow when we cast Blu spells? We have an Ahriman Lens imbedded into our eye just like Raubahn does, and in cutscenes we see it glow, so why couldn't, in our casting animation, our eye glow?


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Barney and Quinn's relationship was moving a little too fast for the rest of the gang on "How I Met Your Mother" (Mon., 8 p.m. ET on CBS), so the ultimately staged a "Quinntervention," filled with plenty of puns on her name. It all came to a head after a disastrous dinner party saw her ordering Barney around. They were concerned she was taking advantage of him and his wallet as she'd done before their relationship changed.
She'd admittedly been using her same stripper routine on him as she did on other men to get as much money out of them as possible, but things seem to have genuinely changed between them. After she walked in on the "Quinntervention," she just as quickly stormed out and broke up on Barney because she couldn't believe he was ashamed to tell his friends what she did for a living.
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Posted 01 February 2012 - 11:09 PM
I wonder if we can squeeze 10 more points out of GLD in this move. We'll probably find out this month.
The 8 over 21 is the blue moving average above the 21 green. Nice move for price as it broke through the red 50 bar moving average.
(I started the thread out thinking 8 over 21, but it ended up as a 6)
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Go ahead, void the warranty...
Posted 23 February 2012 - 03:29 AM
How'bout this, the E-Wave major count is wrong since in inflation terms the old 80's high was never convincingly taken out, so the recent high is Wave 1 and we are in Wave 2 setting up for Wave 3. So after about ten years of retracing, time begins compressing price for all time new highs as the bull ends around 2020.
I still don't expect much action until summertime. Hope I am wrong and some kind of panic sets in but it wouldn't follow a completed consolidation. Summer would be the bare minimum for consolidating sideways before finally breaking out to new highs (even though the HUI chart looks ripe).
Go ahead, void the warranty...
Posted 29 February 2012 - 01:33 AM
PMs are still retracing. Miners still sleepy.
Go ahead, void the warranty...
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I guess we all lost interest, but since I'm still around and always looking for some excitement, I'll change from a monthly thread to a quarterly one. Maybe we'll see a few of you willing to share your thoughts. For me, I've been working a lot of overtime lately and I've been neglecting a lot of things a long with it.
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Greek Life FAQ
Q. What is Recruitment/Intake?
Barry University is composed of 2 fraternities and 1 women's sorority. These include IFC fraternities, PHC sorority, and AGC member fraternities and sororities. The governing organizations at Barry is the Greek Council. Each governing body has specific guidelines and requirements related to the recruitment of new members. Additionally, each member organization has additional requirements of students seeking membership in their specific organizations.
Recruitment (also known as member intake) is a period of time during which interested students can learn more about the requirements, expectations, and responsibilities of joining a Greek-lettered organization. Recruitment traditionally takes place at the beginning of each semester and can extend throughout the term depending on the needs of each fraternity and sorority. Some of the governing councils coordinate a very structured recruitment period during certain semesters while at other times the recruitment or intake process is relatively unstructured with groups individually conducting activities.
During the fall semester recruitment will be conducted for students with at least Barry a cumulative 2.25 grade point average. Both Interfraternity and Panhellenic member organizations traditionally conduct recruitment during this semester. Fall recruitment includes structured and unstructured activities. Students interested in participating in recruitment can contact email@example.com or stop by the Office of Student Life or look for advertising around campus.
Q. How do I join a fraternity or sorority? What are the criteria to join?
A. To be eligible for fraternity and sorority recruitment, upper-class students must have achieved a 2.25 cumulative grade point average the semester preceding Recruitment. Also, in order to affiliate with an organization, students must have completed 12 semester hours of college credit. However, it is important to remember that some fraternities and sororities may require higher academic eligibility requirements. Fraternities and Sororities are also looking for prospective members that have achieved academically as well as co-curricularly. Prospective members that are involved in student organizations and have outside interests are more attractive to the Greek community during recruitment activities.
Q. What are the responsibilities for membership in a fraternity or sorority?
A. Commitment to the principles, values and standards, for which the national organization was founded upon.
Participation in chapter activities such as meetings, educational/leadership programs, community service events, and social activities.
All of our fraternities and sororities have a minimum grade requirement in order to be in good standing as a member. Those grade requirements vary by organization but all are above a 2.0.
Q. What is the financial obligation to join a fraternity or sorority?
A. Dues vary widely from chapter to chapter and are typically higher the first semester of joining. As you get to know Greek members on campus, be sure to ask them specific questions related to the financial obligation for their individual organization.
Q. What is the time commitment involved with membership in a fraternity or sorority?
A. Greek membership requires a substantial time commitment from every member. However, the more time a member spends with the members in their organization and at chapter activities the more benefits a student will receive from their membership. Just like any other activity, the amount of time and energy you put into your Greek membership, the more you will get out of the experience.
Q. Does Barry have Greek Housing?
A. Barry University does not currently have Fraternity and Sorority Housing on campus. Any and all off-campus fraternity and sorority housing is not officially recognized by either the University or National Chapter Offices.
Q. What is Barry's policy on Hazing?
A. 240.1325 Hazing prohibited.
(1) As used in this section, "hazing" means any action or situation which recklessly or intentionally endangers the mental or physical health or safety of a student for the purpose of initiation or admission into or affiliation with any organization operating under the sanction of a postsecondary institution. Such term includes, but is not limited to, any brutality of a physical nature, such as whipping, beating, branding, forced calisthenics, exposure to the elements, forced consumption of any food, liquor, drug, or other substance, or other forced physical activity which could adversely affect the physical health or safety of the student, and also includes any activity which would subject the student to extreme mental stress, such as sleep deprivation, forced exclusion from social contact, forced conduct which could result in extreme embarrassment, or other forced activity which could adversely affect the mental health or dignity of the student.


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Mackinac Center Experts Available to Discuss Gov. Snyder's Detroit Bailout Plan
New VoteSpotter app will be used to track every vote of every legislator on multi-bill package
For Immediate Release
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Ted O'Neil
Media Relations Manager
MIDLAND — Mackinac Center fiscal policy experts will be available to comment on a purported 10-bill package of legislation that could be introduced as early as this week to partially bail out the city of Detroit for as much as $350 million. The votes of every legislator on the bills will immediately be communicated to constituents via the Center's VoteSpotter app, allowing voters to give instant feedback to their lawmakers.
"VoteSpotter is ideal for this kind of legislation," said Michael LaFaive, director of the Center's Morey Fiscal Policy Initiative. "Keeping track of 10 different bills can be a difficult task for Michiganders who have families and jobs and other interests to pursue. VoteSpotter can provide it all for them in one spot and let them weigh in on their legislator's performance."
"Assume hypothetically your state representative is Republican Jase Bolger," LaFaive explained, "and you don't think his vote was the correct one. The VoteSpotter app would alert you to a new vote description (Panel 1, above). Upon review the user could agree or disagree with the vote with a quick touch of the green or red symbols (Panel 2) and send Rep. Bolger an email with a pre-loaded email address, subject line, and suggested (but editable) email (Panel 3)."
A recent public opinion poll commissioned by the Mackinac Center found that Republicans opposed Gov. Snyder's Detroit bailout plan by a 55-38 margin. That was mirrored closely by Independents, who oppose the plan by a 54-39 margin.
"I imagine a lot of VoteSpotter users will be telling lawmakers that they'd rather see that $350 million used to fix the dozens of potholes they have to dodge driving to and from work each day," LaFaive said.


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Many service opportunities are available for students on and off campus. If you are interested in volunteering please come by our office located in the Student Services Building, call (903)-233-4451, or email email@example.com.
American Red Cross - Gives help to victims of disaster; provides emergency communications between military personnel and their families; teaches first aid, CPR, swimming, lifeguarding, and other safety courses. Phone: (903)753-5591 Address: 1604 Texas 31, Longview, TX
The American Red Cross Blood Services supplies the demand for blood and blood products to the three local hospitals in this community. Volunteers are needed to help in donor recruitment, marketing , education, design and distribution of information pertaining to blood drives held in the local communities. One out of every three individuals will need a blood transfusion sometime in their lifetime. Together, we can save a life. Must have own transportation. Phone: (903)753-5591 Address: 1604 Texas 31, Longview, TX
The Arc of Gregg County - Services include day care, social activities, physical education, Special Olympics, and educational enrichment programs. Counseling service for parents and family members is also available. Legal advocacy to the mentally disabled included. Phone: (903) 753-0723 Address: 601 W. Boyd St. Longview TX
Asbury House - Volunteer and internship positions exist for students interested in helping to provide, within a nurturing Christian environment, the highest quality of education and care for children of low income families. Phone: (903) 758-7062 Address: 320 S. Center St. Longview, TX
Boys and Girls Club of Gregg County, Inc. - The mission of the Boys and Girls Club is to enhance the quality of life of its members for today and to provide opportunity for development into productive citizens for tomorrow. The organization provides only youth services that seek to help its members to develop their talents to their maximum potential. Young people of all nationalities, races and creeds join in wholesome recreation and companionship. Phone: (903) 234-9121 Address: 610 Garfield Dr. Longview, TX
Buckner Children and Family Services - This organization serves our community through a variety of means: educating families in how to care for children, attempting to find foster care for children who have been removed from homes, providing the physical needs of low income families and Christian counseling. Phone; (903) 757-9383 Address: 110 E. Cotton St. Longview, TX
Camp Fire USA - The purpose of Camp Fire, Inc. is to provide, through a program of informal education, opportunities for youth to realize their potential and to function effectively as caring, self-directed individuals responsible to themselves and to others; and, as an organization, to seek to improve those conditions in society which affect youth. Phone: (903) 291-2157 Address: 1601 Fairmont St. Longview, TX
East Texas Child Advocates, Inc. - The mission of the Children's Advocacy Center of East Texas is to lessen the emotional trauma to the children by coordinating the multidisciplinary investigation, assessment, prosecution and treatment of child abuse. This organization recruits and trains volunteers to represent the best interests of children in the court system. CASA volunteers are appointed by a judge to speak up for abused and neglected children. Phone: (903) 753-8093 Address: 208 N. Green Ste 404
East Texas Council of Governments - ETCOG's Area Agency on Aging, which provides help with nursing home complaints, education, recreation, health screening, food banks, transportation for elderly, and minor home repair. Other divisions are Workforce Development, Criminal Justice; Municipal Planning and Zoning, Community Development, Composting, Litter Abatement, and Economic and Community Development, which maintains population and demographic data for region, water and sewer projects, solid waste management, and air quality planning. Opportunities exists for internships and volunteers. Phone: (903) 984-8641 Address: 3800 Stone Rd., Kilgore, TX
East Texas Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse - Provides a 24-hour toll-free counseling hotline (800- 441-8639), free confidential counseling and support groups for abusers, family, friends and employers. Speakers, videos and literature for schools, churches and community organizations are available for professionals. Phone: (903) 753-7633 Address: 708 Glencrest Ln., Longview, TX
East Texas Literacy Council - An adult program with tutors trained to work one-on-one with students is offered at no cost to those in need. Programs for family literacy, workplace literacy, and English as a second language are also provided. Phone: (903) 757-9302 Address: 320 E. Methvin St., Longview, TX 75601
Heartsway Hospice - Hospice services enable terminally ill patients to remain at home for the duration of their illness. The Hospice team is dedicated to the promotion of the physical, social and spiritual well-being of persons whose life expectancy is limited. Volunteer opportunities are available for services such as: companionship for the patient and/or family; bereavement services; light housekeeping and/or yard work; and running errands. Phone: (903) 295-1680 Address: 4341 McCann Rd., Longview, TX
Highway 80 Rescue Mission - To preach and teach the word of God so that lives can be transformed from the inside out. II Corinthians 5:17 "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold all things are become new." Programs include: Chapel; shelter, food, and clothing; New Creation Programs; Hope Haven for Women and Children; and community involvement. Phone: (903) 759-9875 Address: 3117 W. Marshall Ave., Longview, TX
LifeCare Hospice - exists in the hope and belief that, through appropriate care and the support of a caring community sensitive to their needs, terminally ill patients and their families may be free to attain a degree of mental and spiritual preparation for death that is satisfactory to them. LifeCare Hospice offers a specialized team of individuals including physicians, nurses, home health aides, and volunteers. Without a volunteer program Hospice could not exist. Our Volunteer program includes visiting with and companionship for our patients, caregiver relief/support, office assistance, fundraising, bereavement services and seasonal lawn care. Through our volunteers we are able to provide assistance to the patient and enable them to die with dignity and provide support for the families during this difficult process. Phone: (903) 297-9300 Address: 1809 Gilmer Rd., Longview, TX
Longview Child Development Center - Year-round childcare and preschool programs for children six weeks to six years old. Parents must work, be enrolled in job training, or attend school or college. Salaries for working parents must fall within guidelines which prove their need for the program. Phone: (903) 758-3861 Address: 1230 High St., Longview, TX
Longview Community Ministries - Services include Meals-on-Wheels and the Food Box, which dispenses food to Longview residents in need. Services as an information and service center for emergency needs, including utilities, shelter, transportation and medicine. Phone: (903) 753-3561 Address: 405 N 5th St., Longview, TX
Longview Habitat for Humanity - This organization is nonprofit, ecumenical Christian housing ministry that has built more than 100,000 houses worldwide with families in need of safe, decent, affordable shelter. Through volunteer labor and tax-deductible donations, Habitat works with partner families to build houses that are sold at no profit and are financed with affordable, no-interest mortgages. Partner families make a down payment and monthly mortgage payments, in addition to investing their own labor-sweat equity-to help build their house and the houses of others. Their mortgage payments go into a revolving Fund for Humanity to help build even more homes. There is a local chapter on campus. Phone: (903) 236-0900 Address: 300 W Tyler Ave., Longview, TX
Longview Teen Court - Provides juvenile misdemeanor offenders an alternative to the criminal justice system by allowing juveniles an opportunity to accept responsibility for their actions by performing community service in lieu of paying a fine. Phone: (903) 753-9701 Address: 302 West Cotton St (Police/Municipal Court Bldg), Longview, TX
Parenting Resource Center - Provides education to strengthen families, break the cycle of violence, and help families in the process of adjustment and recovery from divorce.Phone: (903) 753-7800 Address: 2700 Gilmer Rd, Longview, TX
Salvation Army/Longview Family Services - Provides comprehensive emergency assistance, including food, clothing, medicine, furniture, temporary shelter, and transportation. The Longview Family Service program is administered for temporary assistance to the needy. Phone: (903) 753-4511 Address: 519 E Cotton St., Longview, TX
Texas Association of Developing Colleges - East Texas Educational Opportunity Center-This center offers career counseling, college selection counseling, academic counseling, and financial aid counseling for adults 19 years of age and older. Opportunities are available for technical education for staff and clients; tutoring; help with surveys, counseling; and study skill workshops. Phone: (214) 630-2511 Address: 1140 Empire Central Dr., Suite #550, Dallas, TX
Windridge Therapeutic Equestrian Center of East Texas, Inc .- Serves individuals who are challenged with disabilities and /or situations in their lives which are debilitating. Students benefit through a structured therapeutic horseback riding program, which provides therapy, exercise and education to people with mental emotional, and physical challenges. Phone: (903) 797-2414 Address: 593 Windridge Rd, Gilmer, TX
Women's Center of East Texas - Provides emergency services for abused and sexually assaulted victims as well as shelter for clients. Referral services, professional counseling support groups, 24-hour crisis hotline, and educational programs also available at no charge. Hotline number is (800)441-5555 Phone: (903) 295-7526 Address: 1415 McCann Rd., Longview, TX


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FASFA has always paid for my education, at Ancilla.
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Sports are optional, such as cheer leading and baseball. They have also recently opened a new community building, in which things, such as pottery making, can be taking advantage of.
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Ancilla is one of the only colleges that farms their own beef. Their food is amazing and organic. They also offer salad and soup bars.
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Ancilla will be opening dorms for the first time, come fall semester of 2012.
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Johannesburg, South Africa (CNN) -- It was decades in the making but the long-awaited film based on Nelson Mandela's autobiography is finally here.
Starring British actor Idris Elba as the beloved South African icon, "Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom" had its South African premiere Sunday in a buzzing Johannesburg cinema.
"During the preparation for 'Mandela,' I was very nervous about my abilities, my capabilities as an actor," Elba told CNN.
"But then it came to me as I was playing a 70-year-old man (that) if you put your mind on something you can actually do it," added Elba, famous for his role as a drug kingpin in U.S. TV series "The Wire."
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Mandela, 95, did not attend the premiere as he remains in critical but stable condition in his Johannesburg home, where he is being looked after by a team of military doctors.
Yet relatives, friends and former freedom fighters all joined the movie's cast and crew in what was an exciting and emotional gathering.
"It's going to evoke a lot of sad memories for me," Ndileka Mandela, the former President's granddaughter, said at the red carpet before the film's screening. "His incarceration was not a good time for me as his grandchild and for the family as a whole."
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The film's producer, South African Anant Singh, says he first started corresponding with Mandela about the movie's rights when the iconic leader was still behind bars.
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Singh announced Tuesday that the film will be screened at the White House on November 7.
"It is an exceptional honor to have the film screening hosted by President Obama at the White House as it is the first for a South African film," said the movie producer. "It is also of special significance as it connects Madiba and President Obama as statesmen who were responsible for major paradigm shifts in their respective countries and who have special places in the hearts of their people."
The movie is directed by Justin Chadwick ("The Other Boleyn Girl," "The First Grader") and also features fellow Briton Naomie Harris ("Skyfall") as Mandela's second wife, Winnie.
"This is the biggest film ever to be made in South Africa," added Singh. "We have two foreign actors and the (other) 143 are all South African. What we've tried to do is make a South African film and make in a way that it can engage audiences everywhere."
"Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom" will be released in South Africa on November 28 and one day later it will premiere in in New York and Los Angeles.


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