Word: mainstream
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...Asian America," the 9th annual Harvard intercollegiate conference of its kind, I find myself considering what it means for Asian Americans to "live loudly" or to live in silence. The myth of our success as the model minority, has led to a misrepresentation of Asian Americans in the mainstream American imagination. These distortions come at great material and political costs...
...recent years, for various reasons and to the dismay of many journalists (believe it or not), this self-censorship has weakened. Politicians' sex lives have become fair game, though the mainstream press remains queasy. Now it turns out that the public may be up to the challenge of ignoring this stuff after...
...setting for An Unfortunate Prairie Occurrence, the third and best of Jamie Harrison's laconic Montana mystery novels, is the small town of Blue Deer, just miles from Yellowstone National Park but far, far away from anything resembling mainstream, middle-class America. Though it's not a high-crime zone by any measure, Blue Deer is a vortex of dysfunction, its geographic isolation breeding a sense of year-round cabin fever. Fretful, jumpy and deeply divided between new-money urban refugees playing cowboy and no-money long-time residents living off resentment and odd jobs, Blue Deer is also...
Parker said his committee found their proposedattendance policy "is in the mainstream,"comparing it to those of the law schools atStanford, the Universities of Chicago,Pennsylvania and of California at Berkeley...
That some members of the media will be needlessly lewd is perhaps an inevitable component of any scandal, but that does not mean we should criticize the mainstream media for energetically investigating this story. They are doing their job, and for the most part doing it well. Their coverage will be more valuable when tangential people such as me are replaced with sources who can provide a much clearer sense of what really happened...