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Bride and Prejudice is certainly no masterpiece, but it doesn’t try to be. However, it’s more than merely a cinematic joyride with an ethnic traveling circus. Through a seemingly effortless marriage of disparate elements from the East and West, Chadha establishes it as a very sophisticated and sensitive film...
Righting the Roma BULGARIA Leaders of eight Central and East European countries met in Sofia to launch the Decade of Roma Inclusion, the first major joint initiative to end the plight of the region's largest and most disadvantaged ethnic minority. Sponsored by George Soros' Open Society Institute, the World Bank and the European Union, the program focuses on health, education, housing and employment. A major new survey of the region's Roma by the United Nations Development Program will serve as a benchmark. Soros told TIME that he is "very optimistic" about the initiative's potential impact. "It will...
...points") and vaguely forbidding. Hollywood couldn't ignore her allure, and had taken notice of her stardom in Europe. Finally, in 1931, at 26, she got top billing in her first American talkie, director Lloyd Corrigan's Daughter of the Dragon - which, in its unabashed melodramatic excess, its rampaging ethnic stereotypes and the opportunity it affords its star to be simultaneously sexy and grave, sympathetic and villainous, qualifies the film as the definitive Anna May Wong movie...
...Sistani. Still, they may see the Sistani list as a more viable government, if they can strike a deal that gives the Shiites the power they seek in Baghdad in exchange for de facto Kurdish independence in the northern provinces - largely at the expense of Sunni Arabs and ethnic Turkmen in Kirkuk and other contested areas. Ultimately, however, the Kurds are likely to choose the horse that appears most likely to secure their interest in entrenching, and even expanding, their de facto independence...
...record number of students are vying for a place in Harvard College’s Class of 2009, and the 22,717 applicants exhibit greater ethnic and socioeconomic diversity than those of any past year, according to figures released last week...