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...road accident and the family had to leave the farm; as a boy, he was smitten by China and eventually went off to study its language and history at the Australian National University. He met Therese Rein, his future wife, at ANU and worked his way through school doing menial jobs. But when asked questions about his professional career, Rudd has a tendency to overplay his breadth of experience. A week after he became leader, Rudd's eight years in Parliament had stretched to "nearly a decade." A diplomat from 1981 to 1988, Rudd was sometimes based in Canberra...
...brainy scientists who have long deserted their home labs for the U.S. As borders have fallen, more people than ever are packing up and leaving: thousands of Britons are trying their luck in France and Spain, even as Poles and other East Europeans flock to London to take often menial jobs...
...given official refugee status by the UNHCR can stay in the country for a renewable one-year period. (UNHCR now automatically grants refugee status to anyone from central and southern Iraq.) But most Iraqi refugees aren't legally allowed to work in Lebanon, and those who do usually take menial under-the-table jobs such as washing cars for $14 a day. A number of Iraqi women have ended up working as prostitutes...
What conceivable sort of advantage is provided by having non-English speaking parents who work at least 12 hours a day in menial labor? Clearly such people face some economic barriers and racial discrimination, so why is their treatment not worthy of redress? Is there some sort of “racism scale” on which the difficulties faced by Asians are smaller than those faced by either Hispanics or blacks? If so, who makes such a scale and, more importantly, who is doing the weighing...
From the day his village was destroyed, Deng never stopped looking for a safe, peaceful home. He finally made it to the U.S.--the promised land for many Sudanese--but in America he found new and confusing challenges: menial jobs, discrimination, endless seriocomic misunderstandings. In his first apartment he didn't realize he could turn off the air conditioning and spent a week sleeping with all his clothes on. The loudness and lewdness of the preshow festivities at an NBA game seemed to him "perfectly designed to drive people insane." The book is framed by Deng's experience of being...