Word: actualizations
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...producers are creating a trust fund for Turpin's family. Starting next month, millions of people will watch The Contender and feel they know Turpin. Yet his life ended in an act that not even those closest to him can explain. It turns out that in reality--actual reality--people don't reveal all in a soliloquy. And Rocky does not get a sequel. --With reporting by Sean Scully/Philadelphia
...months or even years, the long-term prospects for Hinzman, Anderson and the rest aren't too good. Unlike 35 years ago, Americans can't just stay in Canada indefinitely as landed immigrants. To be accepted as refugees, they have to show that they face a risk of actual persecution upon returning to the U.S. And one of their principal claims, that the war in Iraq violated international law, has been ruled irrelevant by the immigration board. That doesn't faze Hinzman, who is also prepared to argue that by serving in an "illegal war" he would be a participant...
...allowed citizenship until 1952.) One episode focuses on the San Francisco initiative to ban all Asians from public school. Years later, in 1994, California's proposition 187 (later found unconstitutional) banned illegal immigrants from receiving publicly funded services such as schooling. In another semi-comic retelling of an actual incident, Charlie and Frank, working on a farm outside the city, get herded out of town by angry, armed white locals. Another fascinating sequence involves Charlie's decision to arrange for a "picture bride," a woman from Japan who arrives to be married based only on an exchange of photos. "Picture...
...Combining an account of actual lives in the context of world history, yet told with the charm and humor of a Sunday comic strip, Yoshitaka Kiyama's "The Four Immigrants Manga" should not be missed. A book to be enjoyed by readers of history and comix, this once-lost artifact works as both a delightful read and a reminder of where Americans come from...
...hard science. He is perceived to be tight-lipped when, sometimes, there might not be much to say—as in the case of Allston expansion, which, even now, is in its very early stages and subject to excruciating amounts of criticism for the number of actual decisions that have been made. He is perceived to be arrogant when he might simply be on the trail of a good argument. It’s that problem with the back of his shirt again—it’s not necessarily about what he does, but how mean-looking...