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Discrimination affects the half-black children most deeply, but the lighter-skinned Eurasians suffer also. Other students know these kids' mothers are probably prostitutes, and schoolyard taunts reflect that open secret. "I don't want them talking bad about my mother," says Bryan Enders, an 11-year-old whose American father died of cirrhosis of the liver two years ago. "But I can't say anything, because they will beat me up." Even the teachers sometimes pitch in, blaming the biracial students for fomenting classroom dissent. "They act up more than others," says Juanita de la Cruz, who has five...
...poor, young girl in Angeles, there is little to trade on except her body. Northern European men prefer the darker-skinned Amerasians, while the Japanese go for lighter skin. Jewel, 18, plies the streets in front of Splash, Lollipop and Confetti's, where drunken men amble with a girl in one hand and a San Miguel beer in the other. She's never met her American father, but her mother says he had a scar on his left calf. So every time Jewel meets a middle-aged American, she checks his leg, just in case. "I don't know what...
...Still, you can’t have a newspaper without news; serious matters such as these are as worthy of reporting as lighter ones. But publicity inevitably places everything in an unsympathetic light. Seeing fellow students suffer highlights that whether an individual actually did something wrong is not always paramount in the eyes of the media (and the subsequent gossip network). The news generally consists solely of events, e.g., being charged with a crime and the events following that charge. And unfortunately, with the exception of the O.J. Simpson case, an accusal is always a larger news event than...
...Henley and Alanis Morissette in front of any crowd in the world, and you would expect an instant epidemic of air guitars. Any crowd, that is, except the Senate Judiciary Committee. Not a single lighter was raised when the ex-Eagle and the queen of ironic rock testified at a digital-music hearing last Tuesday. Indeed, the duo's presence had been effectively overshadowed by a single press release, and Henley knew it. "As Alanis and I sit here," he said, "there is a Ping-Pong game going on over our heads about business models on the Internet...
...last year (according to U.S. News and World Report), a change that could be attributed to a growing population of successful young adults who scorn the old-school brew. In the pubs I visited during my trip there, the glasses of younger people did have a noticeably lighter hue, and the popularity of Budweiser in this legendary land of ale made me shudder...