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...large number of points, and thus a greater chance of acceptance. Under the university’s affirmative action program, however, 20 points are awarded for the “achievement” of being black, Hispanic or Native American. If prospective students are of any other racial or ethnic group they have nothing to fall back on except the merits of their applications. Simply put, affirmative action is discriminatory because it establishes standards for university admissions based exclusively on race...
...problem is that most Americans, like Bush, prefer not to see class distinctions. The American masses have never successfully united to regulate the nation’s ruling plutocrats. During much of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the moneyed elite exploited racial and ethnic divisions among workers to keep them fighting among themselves. The class divisions then were marked by two things: money and breeding. The social distance between people was as important as the difference in wealth...
...Gypsy Cafe, which has been in business for 15 years, serves up as many as 200 hookahs a night at $10 a pipe. At the Habibi, which opened two years ago and turns into a dance club of sorts after hours, with patrons shimmying to Middle Eastern and other ethnic tunes (both cafes are open until the early-morning hours on weekends), smokers have rented more than 500 hookahs in a night. It is not unusual to wait up to an hour for a table at either place on weekends. The Gypsy serves beer and wine with its menu, while...
...flew into the Twin Towers"). The song reached No. 4 in the Dutch pop charts despite, or perhaps because of, being banned by some stations due to its racially and politically charged message. "So what?" says Raymzter. "It made people think about the way they stereotype ethnic minorities, and that was the point." Raymzter's message is all the more pointed because it comes at a time when the Netherlands' traditional tolerance is being tested by frustration over the sharp rise in petty crime attributed to young, urban Moroccans and a general anti-Muslim feeling since Sept. 11. The result...
...Israeli petition expresses outrage over “indications that the ‘fog of war’ could be exploited by the Israeli government to commit further crimes against the Palestinian people, up to full-fledged ethnic cleansing...