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...even to murders like those above, is a short step away. Too many have to question whether or not to find nakedly race-based defamation offensive. Too few are chagrined to see their peers overlook stereotypes so untenable and unconscionable. As long as the public continues to turn a blind eye to the imposition of inferior status on their countrymen, the collective goal of Asian Americans—to be respected as Americans, as citizens and as people—will not be achievable. Should this goal be more incompatible with their heritage than with others?...
...intelligence did not give the idea serious consideration. Others included an attempt by Algerian terrorists to crash a hijacked plane into the Eiffel Tower in 1994. A foreign intelligence service told U.S. agents in 1998 of al-Qaeda plans to hijack a plane and bargain for the release of blind cleric Omar Abdel Rahman, who was in a U.S. prison for his role in the first World Trade Center attack...
...more ottomans, but soon I’m down to $1.55 and I haven’t had a good hand all game. The 20 cent big blind comes to me—down to $1.35. I will win this hand! I bend my two cards up from the Ottoman: Kind of Diamonds. Ace of Clubs. That’s worth ten cents more...
...Meanwhile, Congress itself has come to seem increasingly fossilized. The party that threw out the British colonizers, led India through three wars with Pakistan and laid the foundations for today's economic growth is now widely seen as a collection of distinguished but inactive has-beens who are blind to the party's present ignominies. Nowadays, the party's sole identifiable belief?beyond its vaguely left-of-center economics?seems to be an awed deference to the Gandhis. The only election slogan Congress supporters ever use is: "Sonia Gandhi! Rahul Gandhi! Priyanka Gandhi!" As one Indian correspondent derisively puts...
...entire issue devoted to one gender has consequences.” Perspective thinks Smith misses the point. Gender equality, and any sort of equality for that matter, is not about assuming away human differences and adopting the stance that we respect equality as long as we are blind to diversity. Such a merely formal equality fails to remedy the deep-seated unfairness of an institutional structure which gives some people a greater opportunity than others to advance their most fundamental interests. We must recognize that the rules and organizations we create have a profound and pervasive influence on people?...