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...socially unacceptable that accusations of racism carry enormous consequences. In a society where few overt racists remain, the gray area of what counts as racism has become larger than ever. This ambiguity makes it difficult to differentiate between real racism and unhappy circumstance.Ford’s first chapter, “Racism without Racists,” illustrates how the continuing presence of racism but the lack of obvious perpetrators serves as a catalyst for playing the race card. With the dearth of out-and-out racists making it difficult to blame someone, the wrong people can fall victim...
...rush to that friend request, though—Wan didn’t walk away with the grand prize). But while Law School students may be learning about poker, undergraduates should probably stick to playing for Crimson cash—though Nesson asked Wan to start a Harvard College chapter of GPSTS, the Student Activities Office is doing its best to party-grant this movement, unwilling to recognize poker as a legitimate extracurricular. Ever maintaining the party line, the economics concentrator rushes to the defense of poker, saying “I do think that poker...
...sacred annals of crazy young love, Atheer Lokus may have opened a whole new chapter of recklessness. The 20-year-old restaurant manager was living safely in Ankawa, a Christian town in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq, until April 2006, when he began chatting over the Internet with Miriam Eliasan, an 18-year-old Christian girl from Dora, one of Baghdad's most dangerous neighborhoods. After six months of trading photographs and sweet nothings, he decided that he could no longer live without her. So he drove all the way to Baghdad, where, after getting caught in a firefight between militants...
...under his brother. (Although it also has to be a downer for Fidel to step down just months short of his golden anniversary in power.) Jose "Pepe" Hernandez, president of the Miami-based Cuban-American National Foundation, which backs the trade embargo, said Fidel's departure "opens a new chapter in Cuban history," but stresses that "we have to see what the successors of Fidel Castro are going to do with these opportunities they [now] have. Now they don't have any excuses, [and] if they are not forthcoming [with reform] our opinion is the Cuban people will force them...
While short, the chapter refuting Samuel Huntington's theory of the Clash of Civilizations is particularly pertinent. Huntington posited in a 1993 essay in Foreign Affairs that conflict between Islam and the West was inevitable. Bhutto, drawing on the works of several authors in a New York Review of Books-type essay fears Huntington's work "has actually helped provoke the confrontation it predicts... The clash of civilizations theory is not just intellectually provocative: it fuels xenophobia and paranoia both in the West and in the Islamic world." Instead, she says, the tension is within Islam itself. "The failure...