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...Soon after her return, Serifovic became the object of a parliamentary debate, as legislators from various parties each claimed her support. "Marija Serifovic and her mother Verica both endorsed our party during the [January] election campaign," claimed Rajko Djuric, a chairman of the Serbian Roma Union, a party representing ethnic gypsies. "This is a shameless lie," retorted Aleksandar Vucic of the Radical Party. "Jasko Serifovic, Marija's grandfather, has been a member of our party since 1995." The debate was interrupted by the singer herself, when she paid a short visit to the parliament on Monday. "I am politically neutral...
...powers was looking to fix the event in order to ensure Serifovic's victory. Explaining this conspiracy theory, the paper wrote: "Lulled by a triumph in Helsinki, Serbs are expected to calmly swallow the imminent secession of Kosovo." The status of Kosovo, the southern Serbian province populated mostly by ethnic Albanians, is currently being debated in the United Nations Security Council. The E.U. and U.S. favor granting the territory independence from Serbia, while Moscow sides with Belgrade in opposing it.Still, the same newspaper was no less ecstatic than its rivals when Serifovic actually won: Euromarija! screamed a giant headline, accompanied...
...Notably, Hispanics are the least common ethnic group among Harvard’s student-athletes after Native Americans, fluctuating between 2 and 3 percent. In Division I, Hispanics comprise between 3 and 4 percent of all recruited athletes...
Conversely, whites seem to be overrepresented on Harvard’s teams by margins of 30 percentage points from 1994 to 1995 and 15 points from 2004 to 2005. Much of that decline could be due to the increased popularity of “Other,” an ethnic category that rose dramatically from 110 to 1,126 respondents between...
Projects to combat access to typically “white” sports—and not engaging in what fencing head coach Peter Brand deems ethnic “bean counting”—might be the initiative with the most positive, lasting impact...