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...Vance, whose mother is Filipina and father is white, is actually just one among several Harvard students of Asian descent who have emerged as prominent leaders for their respective teams...
...PeopleExpress was just beginning its descent. That wasn't obvious to everyone; even John Stossel, no easy touch, had give the rapidly expanding airline a smooch on 20/20. PeopleExpress had low fares, its own goofy counterairline culture and enthusiastic crewmembers and ground staff who were also stockholders. It had been started by a renegade entrepreneur named Don Burr. And it was growing like mad, even expanding service to London for $149 each...
...issues today. Surprisingly enough, although history often repeats itself, governments seem to learn their lesson—sometimes. Though the U.S. infamously forced Japanese Americans into internment camps during Word War II, for example, President Bush encouraged fair treatment of American residents and citizens of Muslim and Middle Eastern descent following September 11, 2001. Each chapter of the book covers a different war, and as Stone works his way through time, he starts sounding less like a textbook and more like an editorial, a progression that culminates in the sections on the “War on Terrorism...
...retiree and native of Saint-Gilles. "Sabatot is the biggest problem for us today. Lots of people just feel overrun, fed up or both." As if in reply, Morit (who would give only his first name), an 18-year-old first-generation Saint-Gilles citizen of Moroccan descent, says, "We feel the racism and scorn everywhere...
...large for the allotted number of works, forming a disjointed sampling—rather than a comprehensive collection—of photographs. DECEPTIVELY SMALL Curated by Kimberly Masteller, assistant curator of Islamic and Later Indian Art, the exhibition presents different styles of photography taken by artists of South Asian descent. Paradoxically, the show manages to be too broad and still remain quite small: It has a total of six framed photographs. The show is meant to complement “Overlapping Realms: Arts of the Islamic World and India, 900-1900,” and is housed in the same...