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...deal with the racism that negatively impacts “real” minorities. Besides being a dangerous over-generalization, this misperception obscures the actuality of Asian American experiences. While the accomplishments of some Asian Americans are very visible in this society, the challenges and the discrimination that confront the minority remain unnoticed. They are an invisible minority...
...qualities that characterize their most nimble and inventive attackers,” he said. “It’s not terminal to be large. It is only terminal to be slow, unresponsive, arrogant, isolated, bureaucratic or unwilling to change. These are the same dynamics that we confront in the public sector...
...paycheck. In a twist that will delight psychologists, they are all firstborns. More unusually, all three are married but serve as the chief breadwinners in their families. Cooper and Rowley have husbands who are full-time, stay-at-home dads. For every one of them, the decision to confront the higher-ups meant jeopardizing a paycheck their families truly depended...
...time. Towers, while naturally lacking the variety of moods and settings in Fellowship, has a grave gusto that energizes every moment. For this episode is a very war-y war movie, a long assault to determine whether the crusading companions of Frodo the Ring-bearer will survive to confront their ultimate destiny. A palpable pall hangs over the realm of Rohan, where King Théoden (Bernard Hill) has been bewitched by evil wizard Saruman (Christopher Lee) and his spy Gríma Worm-tongue (Brad Dourif, as a slimier Richard III). Heroic Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen) and the elf-warrior...
Appropriately enough for the holiday season, the Ghosts of America Past came to town this week. Like most ghosts, they were terrifying to behold. But, like Uncle Scrooge in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, each of us has been forced by the appearance of these ghosts to confront the past. And, in particular, we have been forced to tackle some of the comfortable lies that many of us have been lulled into accepting...