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...citation of the official United Nations definition of racism is misleading. If racism is "any distinction, etc., based on race, color descent or national or ethnic origin," then every member of the United Nations is a racist state. If an American woman gives birth to a child in Greece, her child is an American citizen, while the child of a Greek woman giving birth in the same hospital is not an American citizen. That too is a distinction based on "national or ethnic origin." The United States is thus a racist state, if we take this simplistic definition at face...
Mozart and Cosmology--a multi-media performance piece inspired by Mozart's music and current cosmological theories of the origin of the universe, created in commemoration of the 200th anniversary of Mozart's death. Presented by Dance at MIT. In Northeastern University's Blackman Auditorium, 360 Huntington Ave. Friday and Saturday, Dec. 13 and 14, at 8 p.m. Tickets are $15.50, $13.50 and are available by calling...
Issues of ethnic origin and human sexuality are closely linked, according to participants in a forum conducted last night by the Harvard Radcliffe South Asian Association (HRSAA) and the Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Students Association (BGLSA...
...dispute over a 7-ft.-tall marble beauty: a magnificent early 5th century B.C. Greek statue of a goddess, perhaps Aphrodite. Italy claims it was furtively unearthed in 1979 from the archaeological dig at Morgantina, Sicily. Some experts doubt that Morgantina, a onetime Greek colony, was the specific origin, but Italy is convinced the statue came from somewhere under its soil...
...used the word invented' and that was the origin of the problem," he said. "Feminists do claim to have invented the concept [of date rape]. But the reality is there and has always been there." "People thought I was denying the reality of date rape, which I don't deny," he said...