Word: descent
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...summer there,” Kim says. “We wondered why Asian designers don’t get as much exposure as European designers and decided to try to change that.”EAST MEETS WESTKim and Parent compiled a list of professional designers of Asian descent and began trying to make contact, hoping designers would be receptive to participating in a fashion show at Harvard. “We had to persuade everyone and convince them it was for real and that it was going to be a really professional-grade fashion show...
...widely expected victory Saturday night, Bobby Jindal, a 36-year-old Republican Congressman, won the Louisiana gubernatorial election, becoming the nation's first governor of Indian-American descent and the youngest chief executive of any state. Jindal took 54% of the vote in the state's off-year open primary, the first since Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, and became the first non-white politician to hold the state's highest office since Reconstruction. Jindal, one of the few young rising stars in the G.O.P. ran on a strong reform platform. "Don't let anyone talk badly about Louisana...
...just suddenly disappeared off the edge and I say, ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa’—and then I look over and Roman’s kind of just skiing down the mountain. He couldn’t have stopped, but he had this controlled descent. And then we said, ‘Well, that’s gonna go in it.’”Collective cinema or not, Anderson has certainly established his own style of movie making—the pre-planned details, the free-formed production style, the collaborative process...
...been written in English but authored by Indians, or the children of Indians, living outside the country. Writers such as Salman Rushdie, who left India in his teens and has lived abroad for most of his adult life, and Nobel-prizewinning writer V.S. Naipaul, born in Trinidad of Indian descent, may be lauded around the globe but their reception in India is often less than warm...
Percentage of the current undercover force that is of Asian--including Middle Eastern--descent...