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...largest obstacles confronting Asian America today is that, though Asians express a large amount of solidarity in soliciting and donating to other Asian political candidates, these alliances are often fragmented along ethnic lines, according to Adams and Ren. The implication is that if Asian America is to move forward in the political landscape, the demographic needs above all else a sense of pan-ethnic unity within its political community. A more unified approach to campaigning and to selecting candidates would permit a more coherent platform from which spokesmen can articulate and advocate for the most important of shared interests. Only...
...economic emergence is causing a big stir, and, among other things, people want to know how the economic transformation will affect Chinese society. I don’t know enough about China now to have a strong sense of how China’s profoundly different culture will express itself in the twenty-first century, but if my two months in Shanghai this summer offered any glimpse at all, it is that the China of tomorrow may look something like a cross between the Manhattan and Las Vegas of today...
...strange genre conventions in movies - that the rich girl will fall in love with the poor boy, or that people will choose to express themselves by bursting into song - surely the goofiest is the one at the heart of the traditional Western: that the good guy will be the best shot. Does that make any sense? Surely the villain will have had more practice, and with more live targets. Surely he will not wait for a sporting opportunity to murder. Yet there he is, at the wrong end of Main Street, about to be perforated by the unerring trajectory...
Yves Saint Laurent, along with Pierre Bergé, his business partner, dressed a generation of women inventively in pantsuits, peacoats and jewel-colored evening dresses that not only were beautiful but also allowed women to express their sexuality and power...
...between the public and Britain's many and multifaceted newspapers, which are usually adept at playing to their readers' biases. The press here - from populist tabloids to serious-minded dailies - has largely been unswerving in its support of the McCanns. "Madeleine: Her Mother is Innocent," shouted Wednesday's Daily Express. "Torture," declared Sunday's The People over a picture of Kate McCann, Madeleine's mother. And Chris Roycroft-Davis, a media consultant and Express commentator, thinks that's how it should be. "The media have been very, very sympathetic toward the McCanns, quite rightly so," he said on a Sunday...