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...Leading up to the 2000 count, before the Census included an option to check more than one race, the Bureau was flooded with letters from white women married to black men asking if they should check white or black for their children. They sent pictures and asked which parent the Census wanted their kids to deny. "They explicitly said it's about representation and respect, because no one thought there was going to be a special government program for children of mixed-race parents," says Prewitt, who was running the bureau at the time. "The Census is the picture...
...Nahum were allegedly major fundraisers for Shas and Yosef family networks of educational institutions. According to a report on Israeli television, Rabbi David Yosef was also said to have been the target of Solomon Dwek, the FBI's chief informant, who asked the rabbi to help him launder a check for $25,000. David Yosef reportedly declined. (Read about the New Jersey corruption sting...
...seems like the cops hate us," says DeAndre Breeland, a legal aide who lives in the South Ward. On a late-June night patrol, two cars from the Newark police department's street-crime unit zipped through some of the city's most notorious neighborhoods, slowing down to check on groups hanging out on stoops and flashing lights to make sure there was no funny business. The glares from Newarkers said it all: Get out of here. Of course, these same detractors didn't see the gang unit chase down and tackle an armed 16-year-old kid later that...
...Check thecrimson.com throughout the day for updates. —Staff writer Peter F. Zhu can be reached at pzhu@fas.harvard.edu
...Change List accuses Kurdish leaders of doing a poor job of standing up for Kurdish interests in Baghdad, such as seeing that the government delivers on its constitutional obligations to return Kirkuk and other disputed areas to Kurdish governance. With Iraq's Sunni-Shi'ite sectarian violence largely in check, the growing Kurdish-Arab discord has become the most worrisome fault line in the country. Massoud Barzani, head of the KRG, and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki haven't spoken in over a year, and KRG Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani said recently that Kurdish-Arab relations are at their...