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...this well-adjusted sophomore’s novel, then? Well, seriously, it’s all there! No spoilers, but no harm in revealing a few emblematic details of Opal’s weird, scary life: her parents, for starters, are wildly irrational and possibly schizophrenic, encouraging their daughter to drink, wear short skirts, and seduce a boy who wants to be known as the conservative face of Woodcliff High. Throughout the book, Opal’s father clownishly apes hip-hop slang and says things like “Don’t be trippin’, Opal...
...usually face less family resistance if they date East Asians or Caucasians than if they date African Americans.But, Datar stresses, religious tensions might weigh more heavily than racial stereotypes in their romantic choices.“I’m sure that several Indian parents would much prefer their daughter to bring home a black guy than an Indian Muslim,” says Datar, who is Hindu.Nationality can be a crucial issue when two nations have a history of conflict.Deep tensions still linger between China and Japan, for instance, because of World War II. Geng, who is Chinese, says...
...former director of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research. “His US tour has been very successful. He has the potential for making great strides in cross-strait relations.” A graduate of Harvard Law School, Ma joked that he almost named his daughter Cambridge Ma “exactly 30 years ago” when he was studying here. “It’s a pleasant home-coming for me,” he added. Ma told the audience that democracy is not a precondition for him to visit mainland China...
...experiment’s conclusions were consistent with economic theories about consumer preferences. “The idea is to make consumers aware of what they are buying and to reward good practices,” Kohl-Kaufman said. “For example, my sixteen-year-old daughter won’t buy anything that was made by someone younger than her, but in many cases there is no way to know that.” Smyth, who was a Crimson editorial editor, said that the experiment confirmed his belief that consumers will support good labor standards...
...because it’s Holi,” Lala said. Holi commemorates the coming of spring, according to Sandesara. It comes from a Hindu myth about a demon king who tried to punish his son Prahled for worshipping Lord Vishnu, he said. The demon king instructed his daughter Holika to hold Prahled in a fire, Sandesara added, but Lord Vishnu ultimately came to Prahled’s aid, allowing him to survive while Holika burned to death. “Holi shows the triumph of good over evil and the innocent over the corrupt,” Sandesara said...