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...highly publicized success of Asian Americans, 29 culturally distinct groups that are sometimes classified by California demographers as white, is being used by the media and some members of the policy elite to embarrass African Americans. Some Asian Americans have documented the existence of an Asian-American "underclass" (people engaged in socially deviant behavior or living below the poverty line, or both). But such findings have not dented the widespread impression that these groups are "model" minorities. Blacks are seen as less hardworking and less deserving than members of model minorities -- although 90% of them hold jobs and their West...
...that Thomas isn't smart. He has a fine academic record, and it's difficult to imagine that he will embarrass the Supreme Court. But that doesn't mean he's qualified...
...skimpy newspaper accounts of the spread of AIDS, she wrote away for pamphlets and photocopied them for her clients. "I read that you had to have condoms," she says, "so I ordered 5,000." And she talks to the local teenagers as bluntly as possible. "You cannot shock or embarrass me," she tells them. The most effective part of her programs, she says, is that they "get people to talk and communicate -- to make sex not such a big mystery...
...case of the Pentagon official, the press coverage was not prompted by any crime, scandal or even news event. It was entirely brought about by gay activists pursuing a political agenda. They had no grudge against the official. Many professed to admire him. But they were determined to embarrass the Pentagon about its exclusion of gays from the armed services. To them, it was hypocritical for Defense Secretary Dick Cheney to retain a high civilian official, knowing -- or at least not caring -- that he was gay, while continuing to enforce antigay rules that apply to the uniformed ranks...
Italians are notorious for not paying their taxes, but with the government staggering under annual deficits of more than $100 billion, Rome can no longer afford to wink at deadbeats. To embarrass delinquents, Finance Minister Rino Formica launched Operation Glass House, giving computerized lists of the past decade's 270,000 tax evaders to the press. The lists include such figures as leather-goods entrepreneur Roberto Gucci and Benito Mussolini's son Romano...