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Through that first process, Baliga realized why immigrant women often lack avenues out of abuse that American-born women have...
...affirmative action] program to Blacks, native Americans, Mexican-Americans and Puerto Ricans." To its credit? I fear that Ramos has resided a bit too long inside Harvard's ivory tower, and that he has forgotten--if he ever understood--what life is like outside. Not all Asian-Anericans have the benefit of sharing Ramos's comfortable middle-class background and the advantages it has brought him. What of the children of Asians who have never had the good fortune to attend college and can barely make ends meet? What of the American-born children of recent immigrants, who have struggled...
When the Treasury Department ordered chess genius Bobby Fischer to obey U.S. sanctions and forgo a $5 million match in Yugoslavia last fall, Fischer, the sole American-born world chess champion, delivered an unambiguous reply: he spit on the department's letter. He also won the match. Now that a federal jury has issued a warrant for Fischer's arrest, the misanthropic grandmaster continues his defiance, telling a Belgrade newspaper that he will play additional matches there...
EXPLAINING to the Japanese newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun why he had not been promoted to grand champion, American-born sumo wrestler Konishiki said, "Strictly speaking, this is racial discrimination." By week's end, however, the 576-lb. idol backed down and said his remarks had been "misinterpreted...
...oratorio, the someone else was Carl Davis, an American-born film composer and accomplished pastiche artist. After McCartney wrote the text and invented the tunes, Davis arranged them slickly for soprano (Kiri Te Kanawa at the Liverpool premiere and on the recording), mezzo (Sally Burgess), tenor (Jerry Hadley), bass (Willard White), boy soprano, chorus, cathedral choir and full orchestra...