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...Fully half of our women athletes are minorities and come from diverse socio-economic backgrounds. In addition, our coaching staff is a diverse group including an Israeli Jew and son of Holocaust survivors, a Chinese expatriate and recent emigre, and a Filipino-American who spent the early years of his life in an internment camp...
...million Filipino expats have been given the right to vote in the Philippines' national elections, beginning...
Cooperation with foreign-intelligence and law-enforcement authorities is key; since Sept 11, 2001, a total of 2,974 terror suspects have been detained in 98 countries. Americans have learned to use local assets, like the Filipino agents who disguise themselves as ice-cream vendors or beauticians, to track down terrorists. "The feeling here," says a senior French investigator, "is that the Americans are doing an excellent job in police and intelligence terms." Not everything goes according to plan. High-tech listening devices are of no use if nobody sends an electronic message. "The bad guys," says a Western diplomat...
...hard," she writes, showing herself caught between the desire for and dread of carefree dancing. Told in a vaguely chronological order, each vignette explores a different aspect of the change from childhood to the alienated world of the teenager. Particularly vivid is Barry's portrait of her mother, a Filipino immigrant with a nasty streak. The story titled, "The Aswang," ostensibly about a legendary Filipino monster, turns into a fascinating examination of how dysfunctional mother-daughter relationships can turn lead to loving grandmother-granddaughter relationships. While most of the stories hew closely to the coming-of-age theme, Barry occasionally...
...Crimson was the target of a peaceful protest, and as a result, there has been some progress in rebuilding the bridges to the Asian community that were torched a year and a half ago. At the Daily Evergreen, it is too soon to gauge the fallout of the Filipino article, though the newspaper’s admission of “deep regret” for “gross inaccuracies and poor coverage” ought to go a long way towards alleviating long-term damage to the paper’s reputation. On the other hand, the theft...