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...extent, he benefited from France's electoral laws, which allow multiple candidates in the first round. Jospin received just over 16% of the vote, compared with nearly 17% for Le Pen and 20% for Chirac. Other candidates of the left, together with the Greens, gathered nearly 27%. Just as some Democrats blamed Ralph Nader for Al Gore's failure in 2000, so Jospin's supporters can blame the comrades who siphoned votes away from him. Still, the question remains: Why did so many voters desert the mainstream candidates? How about: because they are bored stiff with them. Chirac first served...
...work appears in USA Today. "Forty years after the civil rights movement, not only does racism still exist but it's become even more insidious for having gone underground, argues Mathis. This more virulent strain of discrimination, less blatant, and therefore harder to confront, pervades American society to the extent that black Americans feel defensive and uncomfortable in their own country...
...album’s reception could provide a startling measure of the extent to which arguably the most influential artist in the history of rock has been forgotten or misunderstood by younger generations. Alternatively, it could serve to revitalize images of the young, revolutionary King in the minds of a generation which has been fed little more than regurgitated clichés. Either way, it will speak volumes about the power of the media controlling the image of a man whose music deserves to be remembered, irrespective of the commercial hype it has generated...
Farh had difficulty becoming as comfortable among non-Asian friends as she was with Asian students. White students’ comfort levels are rarely tested to such an extent. As Kimberly J. Ravener ’03 says, while minority students are consistently forced into situations where they are outnumbered, white students generally have to consciously choose to end up in that scenario. Ravener is a self-described standard white girl in a very diverse blocking group. Through her blockmates, she’s become the rare white student who participates primarily in a minority-dominated social scene...
...Lowell House. She covered ethnic student organizations and campus race relations for The Crimson, and directed the team of reporters who broke the story of Summers’ appointment as University president. She is the daughter of Sri Lankan Tamil immigrants, and grew up in Bethesda, Md. To what extent does she think ethnic/racial groups at Harvard self-segregate, on a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being not at all and 5 being a great deal? Before writing this scrutiny, she would have said what most people said, which...