This week attorneys in Washington representing the Florida chapters of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Family Physicians and the American College of Physicians wrote a letter to Governor Rick Scott demanding that he veto the bill.

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Tom O'Neil, entertainment reporter for the Los Angeles Times' TheEnvelope.com and founder of GoldDerby.com, a Web site dedicated to predicting and analyzing award show wins, said the Academy finally began making an effort to recognize black actors after Halle Berry and Denzel Washington won Oscars in 2002.

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Voted into the academy's core membership were the novelist Ward Just, known for his stories set in Washington, D.

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These included Mr. Walter Staveloz, Director of the International Relations Association of Science-Technology Centres in Washington DC, and Mr Owen Gaffney, Director of communications, International Geosphere Biosphere Programme, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden.

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Both Blake Robison, director of the production now running at the Folger Elizabethan Theatre in Washington, DC, and Sam Mendes, who directs the Bridge Project's production at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York, emphasise this aspect by opening their productions with the actor who plays the unfortunate Mamillius, the boy-prince who dies of grief, reading from a book of fairy tales.

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You hear that question every year at the Academy Awards, and you hear it, asked more politely, every four years at inaugural time in Washington.

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