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...Counter penned a lengthy article in The Crisis, a magazine published by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. In it, he suggested that certain “para-white ethnic groups” influence the media to denigrate blacks and “to convince themselves and others of their imagined white identity.” One can only guess of whom he might have been thinking...
...belief that drove his policy, not vice versa—he supported the mission in Iraq not to please President Bush, but to confront the spread of terrorism. He has long advocated a greater role for Britain in international affairs: He sent British troops to Kosovo to stop ethnic genocide, he traveled to Sierra Leone to help end its civil war, and he continues to support NATO’s mission in Afghanistan to stamp out the Taliban...
...point of pride” for the school, and that sports teams should both be representative and provide access to such a tradition. And, second, it felt that among the student-athletes themselves, learning how to “converse” across racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic lines was not only desirable, but key to providing a truly multicultural education...
...separation of State and Church," Putin said during a visit to a Russian Orthodox monastery in January 2004. "But in the people's soul they're together." The resurgence of a Church in open disdain of the secular Constitution is only likely to exacerbate divisions in a multi-ethnic and multi-religious Russia...
...Needless to say, the importance of oil revenue hasn't been lost on Iraq's other ethnic groups. This week a Norwegian company will announce it will start pumping oil in Iraq's Kurdistan; never mind that there is no legal framework yet to do so. The Kurds know as well as anyone that without oil they will starve...