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...hurled racist taunts at Real Betis' Brazilian forward Robert. In 2004 Spanish national team coach Luis Aragonés created a stir when he allegedly made racist remarks about Thierry Henry, the black French striker who plays for London club Arsenal. Shortly after, a "friendly match" between Spain and England was marred by the all-too-familiar simian noises. Perhaps most troubling, the xenophobic chants and racist slogans are no longer confined to bands of Ultras. "What concerns me," says Javier Duran, president of the Observatory of Racism in Sport, the body created by the Spanish government to monitor xenophobic...
...when something goes wrong that Europeans become aware of the illegal immigrants trying to scratch a living in their midst. On a dank night in February 2004, anonymous calls to emergency services in Lancashire, England, gave the first hint of something that would expose the harsh life, and deaths, of a group of Chinese illegals. The calls warned that cockle pickers had been caught by the tide on England's northwestern seaboard, at Morecambe Bay. Last Friday, one caller, later identified as Lin Liang Ren, from Fuzhou city, China, was convicted of the manslaughter of 21 Chinese men and women...
...economic ties between Taiwan and China and stressed that maintaining the status quo should be the top priority. A popular figure in Taiwan and abroad—and regarded by many as the most likely Taiwanese presidential candidate in 2008—Ma attracted an audience from across New England. “As a student here, he showed quite mature views about cross-strait relations,” said Ezra F. Vogel, emeritus Ford II research professor of the social sciences and former director of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research. “His US tour...
...broke mine in like five minutes, and had to get another one.”Good thing they did ‘stick’ to lacrosse—the two have flourished under the Crimson garb.Eager to build upon a freshman season in which he was named New England Rookie of the Year and led the team in points and assists, Greg was poised last season to help Harvard contend for an Ivy League crown. Steve, who also had an excellent year in the 2004 campaign, totaling a careeer-high 15 points, was ready at his side. Yet, following...
...this disease.” Umetsu is already studying ways to prevent NKT cells from causing asthma. Asthma attacks are caused by immune system cells overreacting to relatively benign dust, smoke, or other irritants, restricting breathing in the process. According to results of the study published in the New England Journal of Medicine last week, the frequency of NKT cells in asthmatic patients is roughly a 100 times that found in non-asthmatics. Students afflicted with asthma cheered the advance. “As an asthmatic, it’s frustrating to always be trying to treat the symptoms...