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...students who looked to be of Asian or Asian American descent. Their goal? To build a list of Asian and Asian American alumni to invite for their first ever reunion, which took place Saturday night in Dudley House. Since the College does not record ethnic identity in its alumni files, the group followed this strategy which was first employed by the Black Students Association to build its own invitation list, according to AAA members. “We don’t keep racial tags in our database,” said Hoopes Wampler, director of College alumni programs...
...This is a package - many Iraqis agree with it, many leaders agree with it - is the right medicine if you like, for the problem that Iraqis face with this ethnic and sectarian situation...
...basic problem of Iraq right now is ethnic and sectarian rivalry and competition. And there is a continuing effort on the part of the terrorists - in particular, the Zarkawi group - to pro-voke civil war. The attacks on Samarra pushed the country in that direction. But I think the Iraqi leaders decided not to go that way and stopped rather than move towards a civil war further. The effort by the terrorists to provoke a civil war continues. But the answer to the challenge of Iraq, given the ethnic and sectarian rivalry, is the establishment of a national-unity government...
...Sunni Arab alliance and across sectarian groups, [the secular block] led by Iyad Allawi. The second issue is that there has to be a process for decision-making in which these forces could participate and that's important for a variety of reasons. There is a strong polarization along ethnic and sectarian lines that indicates a lack of trust across these groups. If, in the Iraqi government, there is a place where decisions are being coordinated and where the representatives of these groups are all there, where there's transparency - that would help to build bridges of confidence...
...political groups. One of the most noticeable changes I've seen taken place in the last few months, is how gaps are opening up in Iraqi society. In Baghda's mixed-sectarian neighborhoods, bridges that existed for hundreds of years have been broken. Neighborhoods are being divided along ethnic lines. People are leaving neighborhoods where they are the minority to go live in neighborhoods where they feel safer...