Word: caucasians
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...Officers set aside four “suspicious” individuals in front of Kirkland House last Wedneday to search for any outstanding warrants in their names, according to the police log. Observers report that two plainclothes officers patted down the four men, who appeared Caucasian and in their early 20s. “We’re just talking to some friends,” one of the officers reportedly told witnesses. One of the suspects reportedly said in his defense that “we were just following the leader.” HUPD declined to comment...
...family restaurant rather than pursue journalism.Veronica Clark, an editor of The Improper Bostonian, said she agreed with Young that journalism is a nontraditional career path for minorities.“People in Boston see me as a novelty,” said Clark, who is half Asian and half Caucasian. “It is surprising how nontraditional the career is still seen among Asians now.”Marcus Mabry, chief of correspondents and a senior editor of Newsweek, said that the struggle of minorities in the media is one of “adversity and distinction?...
Nothing much usually happens in Nalchik, capital of the obscure Caucasian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. Mostly, tourists come to ski or climb in mountains that include Europe's highest, Elbrus. They buy honey and fruit from roadside markets or enjoy an easygoing approach to nightlife that particularly appeals to travelers from more conservative regions. The sleepy little republic, which is home to a mix of ethnic Russians and Muslims, was also largely free of the insurgency that has set much of the North Caucasus - Chechnya, Dagestan, Ingushetia - aflame. Even when the security services cracked down on alleged radical Islamists, closing...
...characters. She's not always going to make the right decision; she makes mistakes sometimes. I think that's far more fascinating in literature than some kind of Superwoman, who goes around and plucks a pubic hair from a pillow, and says 'Ah, our offender is a right-handed Caucasian with a harelip.' She's never going to do that kind of thing. She's always going to be kind of in the background of the investigation, and she's Jeffrey's sounding board. She's very much like most of the women I know. GG: How would you describe...
...Frankfurt Book Fair, Kuraj won a yurtful of literary prizes after it first appeared in Italy in the same year. Subsequent translations have charmed critics in France, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands and Spain. Newly published in English, it comes with a map of the many trans-Caucasian journeys recounted, plus a glossary of words imported from Arabic, Hindi, Kyrgyz and Russian: you're in for a long - and enchanting - trip. Kaja, born into the nomadic Tunshan tribe in the late 1930s, can trace her ancestry back to Genghis Khan. She grows up in the warm embrace of family and clan...