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...Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations kicked off its 25th anniversary celebration, hosting an array of student groups on the Science Center lawn yesterday. Many cultural and ethnic groups, ranging from the Asian American Women’s Association to Harvard Hillel, tabled at the Tent Extravaganza, handing out food and fliers. The event, held underneath a white tent, attracted a modest crowd, with people coming and going throughout the afternoon. Foundation Director S. Allen Counter also made several appearances, welcoming students. Mariachi Veritas de Harvard closed the three-hour celebration. The Foundation hopes to provide more financial support...
...Nussdorferstrasse, one of the most conspicuous pockets of gentrification along the belt. There, the city's chattering classes nibble on sushi in a chic interior fashioned from concrete and laminated beechwood. Afterward, they have a healthy choice of postprandial entertainment on the doorstep, much of it with an ethnic feel. At the Indian-inspired KAIKO CLUB, tel: (43-1) 479 88 49, revelers dance to house music beside Buddhist statuary and beneath a massive golden chandelier; over at BOW 4, tel: (43-1) 310 55 82, the techno is as loud as the Moroccan-themed surroundings. When your ears start...
...years Rüütel's junior and claims to speak for "the 65% of Estonians who are pro-Western and forward looking." Ilves narrowly won the vote, by electoral college. But a bigger challenge for Estonia's future may be the past. The nation still nurses deep wounds. Ethnic Russians comprise about one-quarter of Estonia's population, many of them the families of people shipped in during the Soviet period as part of a program to tame the country's irredentism. Since Estonian independence, thousands of these Russians have passed an exam to become naturalized Estonians. But some...
...This generation finds ethnic rivalries far less interesting than the economic boom. It's one of Estonia's characteristics that many of the top jobs in politics and business are held by people under 40, who were too young to have been tainted by the Soviet past. They are also the ones building the new homes that are shooting up on the outskirts of Tallinn, and refurbishing their apartments. Much of this is being done on credit; banks report that their lending is up by a startling 50% this year, leading some to worry about a bubble economy, especially...
...Although the assemblywoman in question, Bonnie Garcia, has called herself a “hot-blooded Latina,” Schwarzenegger’s gross generalization about an ethnic group not his own raised eyebrows when it was reported this month in the Los Angeles Times. And so, Schwarzenegger said he was sorry as only a politician can: “Anyone out there that feels offended by those comments, I just want to say I’m sorry, I apologize...