“Over the past few years, the Supreme Court was six times more likely to accept cases from an elite group of 66 lawyers than it was from more than 99 percent of those who petitioned the court. That's the finding of a recent Reuters special report called "The Echo Chamber." It illustrates how almost half the appeals accepted by the court over a nine-year period came from this cadre of elite lawyers--many of whom have personal connections to the nine justices.” YearsPastJusticeHalfAcceptingCasesGroupsSpecialPeriodsSixFindingsPercentConnectionsCourtLawyerAcceptedSupremeNineAppealsReportsElitesEchoesSupreme CourtChamberOver The PastNine YearsPersonal ConnectionCadre Author:Dahlia Lithwick
“Most young people make films to be accepted, to be discovered, when in fact that was the last idea with the group I went to film school with. To be discovered was not our intention. Our intention was to tell our story our way, and make our own mistakes and learn from film to film.” PeopleWayIdeasFactsStoriesSchoolLastsFilmYoungMistakeGroupsIntentionAcceptedFilm School Author:Haile Gerima
“I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest groups.” ThinkingArtImportantRealityInterestChallengesPowerfulGroupsFunctionAcceptedInterest Groups Author:Salman Rushdie
“I was raised Christian after age 5, but I didn't really understand it until high school. A friend of mine invited me to his youth group. There I heard the gospel, understood it, and accepted it.” AgeSchoolChristianHeardGroupsYouthMinesUnderstoodHigh SchoolRaisedAcceptedInvited Author:Francis Chan
“In the civil society, the individual is recognized and accepted as more than an abstract statistic or faceless member of some group; rather, he is a unique, spiritual being with a soul and a conscience.” SoulSpiritualIndividualGroupsMembersUniqueConscienceAcceptedAbstractCivil SocietySpiritual BeingsFaceless Author:Mark Levin
“All my friends were black and Mexican. I was the only white kid in our group and had to work hard to be accepted. Year after year, we'd breakdance and we all became close and they labeled me "Vanilla" - like "Hey, Vanilla" and they knew I hated it, so of course they kept calling me it.” YearsHardKidsCoursesBlackWhiteGroupsHard WorkCallingMy FriendsAcceptedHeyHatedMexicanVanilla Author:Vanilla Ice
“The United States wanted to send its trained rebel groups to Syria to fight ISIS. Out of twenty-five hundred rebels they had trained, only seventy accepted to go to Syria to fight ISIS. Everybody else wanted to go to Syria to fight the government. So you've got to wake up and smell the coffee. . . . The rebel groups have not fired a shot against ISIS.” StatesGovernmentWantedFightingUnitedUnited StatesFiveGroupsHundredShotsWake UpTwentiesSmellAcceptedCoffeeRebelSyriaSeventiesIsisTwenty Five Author:Mohammad Javad Zarif