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...lack of rule of law, which has given the drug cartels free rein and too often turned Mexican law enforcement into narco-collaborators. Perhaps the only way to shame Mexican politicians into owning up to that national sin - and finally doing something about it - is for the U.S. to confront its own shortcomings. (See pictures of Mexico's narco-carnage...
...writer at theasianeconomist.com addresses the casting of Caucasian actors in Asian roles by raising the question: “How can an Asian anime protagonist be played by a white man?”The recent revival of the Asian American Association Players (AAA Players) at Harvard seems to confront the issue of whether actors are confined to their ethnic origins or whether characters are defined by their physical traits. The original Players, which was created under the umbrella of AAA in 1994, has served as a forum for those underrepresented in theater, including Asian American students. The AAA Players...
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...million free condoms and promoting needle-exchange programs. In his remarks on the report's findings, Mayor Adrian Fenty acknowledged that elected officials must shoulder responsibility for educating the public about the scope of the epidemic and its attendant risks. But he also lamented the public's unwillingness to confront the disease. "You have this problem affecting us, and you tell people how serious it is, and it literally goes in one ear and out the other," Fenty told the Washington Post. Let's hope this fresh batch of staggering statistics will shock Washingtonians - and the rest of us - into...
...profit, and buy a bigger place." Ask her if that plan still holds, and she just laughs. "I have no idea now what my place is worth now - and I don't intend to find out, because I'm not going to sell into this market." China may not confront the disastrous effect that huge numbers of foreclosures have had on real estate prices in the U.S., but its own problems are bad enough - and they're not getting better anytime soon...