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...from anyone who looks remotely Arab. But in Holland, as I soon found out, Moroccans possess a universally-accepted, second-class social status—as do most other “allochtoon,” a now-derogatory word for “immigrant.” Ask any Dutch person, and he or she will (bluntly) tell you the same...
...University says they're willing to meet at any time, but it's an illusion," he said. "Then they ask, 'What do we mean?' I say, 'They don't answer the questions.' There's been this cone of silence over the whole problem...
...Harvard says we're going to cut these services, it's what you do," DeLuca said. "[The union] has nothing to say about the cuts. If you're running a business and you want to cut somebody, you don't have to ask the union's permission. That's the way America runs...
...Klein's "Hot Buttons" [June 15]: How long must we endure this controversy over Judge Sonia Sotomayor's decision in the Ricci v. DeStefano case before the media learn to ask the right question? Sotomayor, the junior judge on a three-judge panel, did not endorse New Haven's decision to discard the promotion test for a group of firefighters when not enough minority firefighters passed the test. She merely declined to step into the matter--as an activist jurist might have done--to tell New Haven that discarding the test was the wrong thing to do. Those are different...
...people still ask you why Mookie threw the garbage can through the window at the end of the movie? Jason Geller NEW YORK CITY...