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...generation. “Coming here to do a job and being accepted are two different things,” Anand said. “Our generation’s experience, your parent’s generation, is very different than your generation’s experience. The second layer builds on the first layer.” But Reddi reminded the audience that the wave of immigration in the 1970s was not the first to hit America. According to Reddi, in the 1910s and 1920s a smaller number of mostly Punjabi immigrants moved to California to become farmers...
...system is remarkably simple: The “Crisis in Darfur” interface adds a layer to Google Earth that makes the region’s sorrows interactively accessible to anyone that has downloaded the free software. Any user can zoom in on burning villages and access pictures and text describing what has happened there. Maps, text, and images are seemingly worth much more than a thousand words...
...African story is simple, and the current violence has its roots in older injustices. "Colonialism lasted just long enough to destroy much of Africa's indigenous cultures and traditions," Godwin observes, "but not long enough to leave behind a durable replacement." Godwin's own story lends another layer of historical irony. In 2001 he learned that his father was not, as he had always believed, an English immigrant. He was a Polish Jew who had fled the Holocaust. "Being a white here," Godwin's father observes, dismayed at the rising chaos, "is starting to feel a bit like being...
...soliciting student input in crafting its hard-nosed recommendations, the College risks closing the door on the kinds of cultural changes that are needed to make club basements safer social spaces for undergraduates. Toothless, unilateral threats veiled in a thin layer of legalese are an unacceptable substitute for an inclusive process which includes social club leaders in evaluating how best to make their parties and their initiation practices safer for both their members and guests. After all, difficult though it may be for College bureaucrats to believe, social clubs have a vested interested in not killing off their members...
...Good News for People Who Love Bad News” proved anything, it was that Brock had enough genius to turn a shambling mess into a successful pop album. The lonely twang of early Modest Mouse songs may have been traded in for a gigantic layer of schmaltz and glittery hooks, but the band’s even more fatalistic than ever. Brock has described the album as a “nautical balalaika carnival romp,” which gives some insight into the controlled chaos that dominates each song. This album doesn’t necessarily break...