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...RESISTANCE: FALL IN LOVE) to the sardonic (ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IS NO MATCH FOR NATURAL STUPIDITY). But most are mushy love notes (M.L. LOVES HER FUNKY D). So one of the organizers, Dutch theater director Justus van Oel, decided to up the ante. He commissioned Farid Esack, a South African religious scholar and former antiapartheid activist, to write a 1,998-word letter, in English, to Palestinians urging nonviolent resistance to the Israelis. The work is now being painted in 2-ft.-high letters along a 1.6-mile stretch of wall near Ramallah. The writing will consume more than 400 cans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard from Ramallah | 6/1/2009 | See Source »

...pretty new for me. He didn’t strike me as someone who was anti-democratic, so I was quite hopeful,” said Barker. Barker recounted how Castro’s visit was the crest of a wave of visits from leaders and nationalists from African nations and Cyprus and that it was part of a trend of “big changes.” But not all in the audience shared Barker’s positive impressions. Although he said he entered with high expectations, Lockshin said that “the speech?...

Author: By Julia S Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Castro Comes to Cambridge | 6/1/2009 | See Source »

...same version incorrectly implied that only students of African American or Latino descent qualify for "Prep for Prep." In fact, some programs accept students of Asian-American descent as well...

Author: By Eric P. Newcomer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Student Barred From Graduation Was Subject of Prior Disciplinary Inquiry, Individuals Say | 5/30/2009 | See Source »

Volandes believes that using images and videos of advanced dementia could be particularly helpful for educating populations that have traditionally low levels of health literacy in the U.S., including African Americans and the elderly. Previous studies have suggested that minorities typically opt for more aggressive end-of-life care than their Caucasian counterparts - "but what we've found in this study is that health literacy is the driving force in this discrepancy, not culture," says Volandes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: Videos Help Prepare for End-of-Life Care | 5/29/2009 | See Source »

...attracting the most attention. The case, Ricci v. DeStefano, involves a group of 18 white firefighters, including one Hispanic. They filed a discrimination suit against the city of New Haven, Conn., after the city decided in 2004 not to certify the results of a job-promotion exam because no African Americans had scored high enough to be promoted. The city argued that federal law treats tests resulting in such outcomes as suspect, meaning that New Haven would probably have been sued by the minorities who failed the test had the white firefighters been promoted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sonia Sotomayor: A Justice Like No Other | 5/28/2009 | See Source »

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