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...Hispanics and blacks preferred to do business with whites than with each other. But in a Gallup survey last year, about two-thirds of each group suddenly said they thought their relations were good. "From a Hispanic perspective, Obama's election didn't just mean that a black man could be President, but that any minority person could," says Freddy Balsera, a Miami-based consultant who headed the Obama campaign's Hispanic- communications effort and is now a chair of the Democratic Party's National Hispanic Leadership Council. "As a result, on Election Day you could feel a new appreciation...
...This is reducing the artistic legacy of a man to a fixed sum to be paid off," says Stephan Martell, who worked as Marceau's musical director. "For those of us who knew Marcel and how he lived his life and art as one, this random dispersal of his possessions is very painful...
...That explains why Huang, who has partnered with Chicago-based sports-industry consultant Marc Ganis to broker deals between Chinese sports companies and U.S. sports teams, is a mystery man to many in the Chinese sports world, while he's considered something of an up-and-comer in U.S. industry circles. Ganis and Huang helped Rockets owner Leslie Alexander buy a stake in Chinese sportswear firm Anta for its successful initial public offering two years ago. But that comprador work is minor compared with the Cavs deal, which would rank as the biggest international sporting investment by a Chinese-Hong...
...election. "What she has done is so much more trivial than her contribution to poetry," said the novelist Jeannette Winterson. "We ought to be able to look beyond the woman to the poetry. This is a way of reducing women; it wouldn't have happened to a man. But then Oxford is a sexist little dump...
...Teachers sit on small chairs all day long and they end up with back pain and headaches." The unions have a long list of demands, ranging from regular free health checkups for kindergarten workers and better sound insulation in classrooms to ergonomic chairs and counseling. (Read "At the Blue Man Group's School, Kids Rule...