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Check out the Red Elvises, who describe their music as a combination of “good old rock ‘n roll with ethnic music from their homeland.” The band, formed by two Russian refugees in 1995, derives its name from the duo’s love of the late crooner and their passion for the color red (how apropos...
...reflection of the fact that 78 freshmen ran for just eight spots. UC leaders said they didn’t know how many successful candidates were minorities. The council’s “Vote or Die” initiative had urged students from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups to run. PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDER FELLED Magnus Grimeland ’07, who launched a surprisingly-successful “outsider” presidential campaign last year that won him second place with 912 votes, is a UC outsider once again. Grimeland, last year a Mather House representative, faced a competitive...
...Until now, murders and persecution of dark-skinned foreigners and Russian citizens of "wrong" ethnic origins had been the prerogative of the country's right-wing neo-Nazi groups. But as the state embarks on a vicious xenophobic campaign against Georgians, the Movement Against Illegal Immigration (NDPI), a key nationalist body known among the initiated as the Movement Against Non-Slav Immigration, eagerly called upon its followers to support the state in exposing "the enemy" wherever they can be found - at marketplaces, in offices, at homes. While the state still pays lip service to weeding out violators...
...that deal with subjects as sensitive as race, religion, or political ideology, a heterogeneous classroom can often mean discomfort, argument, and uncertainty about what is or is not acceptable to say in front of each other. This is particularly striking in classes in African American, Latin American, or other ethnic studies, in which the very people being “studied” are sitting right there in the room—perhaps for entirely different reasons and likely experiencing entirely different responses to the material than the white student next to them...
...have attracted voters like him (he was born in Germany to parents who migrated from Syria), but found the Greens and the old-line Social Democrats wanting. Germany's Christian Democratic Union (cdu) is on the right of the political spectrum and has not historically been associated with the ethnic minority vote. It[an error occurred while processing this directive] opposed full Turkish membership of the E.U., for example, and has taken a tough line on immigration. Even so, said Alkassar, the cdu has "some basic views that I consider my own." Those views are not precisely the Christian ones...