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Ebony is upset by all the fuss. It's hypocritical and very Old Korea and it's bad for her career, she complains. she was recently turned down for a TV commercial when the sponsors found out about her cyberjob. "The prejudice makes it harder for us." Her goal is to become an actress?the IJ gig is the equivalent of waitressing while she waits for that big break. Besides, movie stars and top models take off their clothes so why not aspiring actresses? Says Ebony: "In the U.S., even a porn star can be a celebrity. In Korea...
This doesn't mean that African Americans on the whole are suffering from a "cult of anti-intellectualism," as John McWhorter, a black professor at the University of California, Berkeley, claims in his recent book, Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America. Despite all the fuss about some black teenagers' disparaging their more studious peers for "acting white," most of us, regardless of age or where we stand on the economic ladder, value high achievement as much as anyone. Our problem is not cultural. It's political and psychological. Too many of us have forgotten that we are still...
Opinions vary greatly, according to experience. Dr. David Axelrod, an ob-gyn in Alexandria, Va., recalls one doula who invited a father in just as Axelrod announced he needed to do a C-section. "That caused a little bit of a fuss," says Axelrod. "But basically a lot of my patients like their doulas, and they're becoming more popular...
...next step" in reproductive science, insisting the practice will provide new hope for couples who have been unable to have children. Friday, Antinori was particularly voluble when asked to defend the pending project against ethical and scientific concerns. "We're talking science; we're not here to create a fuss," he said. "I'm asking all of us to be prudent and calm...
...affairs," says a senior French diplomat. But few think tanks in Washington follow the E.U., few Americans have worked in Brussels, and when Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld recently delivered a major speech on transatlantic ties, he never uttered the words "European Union." That captures Washington's view that Europeans fuss too much over the fine points of their multilateral architecture and not enough over their military capabilities, still heavily dependent upon the U.S. for airlift, intelligence and modern equipment...