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Sadly, the “Gay or Asian?” article is not so much an anomaly as it is part of an alarming pattern of discrimination against Asian Americans. Abercrombie & Fitch previously sold shirts that read “Two Wongs can make it white” and displayed a stereotypical caricature of two “Wong Brothers” running a laundry service. AsianWeek.com reported how Shaquille O’Neal cracked racial jokes, repeatedly singled out Houston Rockets player Yao Ming for mockery and even threats of violence, and told a reporter...
Together, the Nightline, Stern and Fahrenheit 911 episdes form a worrisome pattern of corporate hindrance of political discourse—or in Nightline’s case, simply a refusal to acknowledge the sacrifice of American soldiers. The conglomerates act lawfully. But regardless, by refusing to disseminate programs and publications because of their political content, firms like Sinclair, Clear Channel and Disney perfidiously shape debate to suit their preferences—a complacent public interested in consuming products instead of politics...
Anne Frankel, a Countway employee of 17 years who chose to accept the package so she can attend graduate school, said that a recent pattern of attrition and layoffs at Countway had put pressure on employees to take the early retirement...
...of…limiting athletes’ year-round time commitments is unique in Division I.” Of course it’s unique. No other conference’s member schools would be stupid enough to mandate that its players sit through a 49-day holding pattern. Athletes come to college to play sports. They like playing sports. If you give them seven weeks off to do what they want, they’ll take the free time and go play sports. So, in effect, all that happens is the inefficient result of athletes substituting unstructured workouts...
...part of undergraduate education—in different ways possess the potential to be significant steps in this engagement. And if there is the suggestion that this commentary implies yet another rationale for U.S. intervention of a kind in yet another part of the world—a pattern of thought that has hopefully reached its limit—this should be quickly dispelled. Social activists and their lessons of struggle must have their...