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Hussein Chalayan, a Londoner of Turkish-Cypriot descent with strong cultural ties to Istanbul, often finds assumptions about the city to be wide of the mark. "It's the New York not only of Turkey but of the region," he says. "Being next to water is liberating and makes it liberal?gay and lesbian scene and all. It's a cultural soup where one minute you could feel like you are in Paris, the next Cairo, then Moscow...
Erdem Moralioglu, a Canadian of Turkish descent whose Erdem label is sold at Harrods in London and Barneys New York, says the thing one always has to keep in mind about Istanbul is that for everything you think you've learned, you'll find the opposite to be true. "It's about the dichotomy of contrast, old and new, cosmopolitan and yet so ancient. I remember as a boy getting lost in the bazaar and then stumbling into a McDonald...
...Taking on Poverty (STOP) last year, organizing a voter registration drive and a trip to New Orleans last spring break to assist in the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.As a member of Harvard’s Black Men’s Forum, De Beausset, who is not of African-American descent, has also tackled minority issues.“What Kyle brings to the table is really sort of the direction that I want the UC to move in,” Anene says, calling De Beausset’s activist approach “less bureaucratic...
...well. In a paper published last year in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and several universities found that boys born to mothers with higher phthalate levels are far more likely to show altered genital development, linked to incomplete testicular descent. Harvard School of Public Health studies report that men with higher phthalate levels have lower sperm counts and damaged sperm...
While race does tend to correlate with socioeconomic status, a broad range of socioeconomic backgrounds is represented in the category of Asian Americans. Comprised of all people from Asian descent, the majority of whom are close to the immigrant experience, Asian Americans came to the U.S. as everything from job-seeking professionals to refugees fleeing oppressive regimes. A recent post to The Crimson’s blog, The Magenta, admitted that The Crimson’s editorial on Asian American admissions used the term “loosely” to denote people of East Asian descent, completely disregarding entire...