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...current casting formula. Minority groups have been in Hollywood B movies since the black infant Allen (Farina) Hoskins joined the silent-screen Our Gang troupe in 1922. And though Asians can be glad they've gained leading-man status after years in the standard martial-arts Yellow Peril role?a kind of Kung Fu Manchu?the studios aren't exhibiting any social enlightenment in pairing them with blacks. Producers are just trying to make films with relatively inexpensive stars that will appeal to disparate markets: half-price actors for, potentially, twice the audience...
Leonard Downie Jr. and Robert G. Kaiser won a Goldsmith Book Prize for The News about the News: American Journalism in Peril...
...startling fact is that U.S. President George W. Bush's war on terror is losing Asian hearts and minds at a time when terrorism is an ever greater peril for the region. The sympathy earned by the U.S. after Sept. 11 is being wiped out by old grudges and new provocations, all fanned by the prospect of an impending war in Iraq. There is a disconnect here that is troubling: with every new incidence of terrorism, much of it directed against the U.S. and the West, citizens of Asia's supercities and rural communities seem to vent their anger back...
...Iraq's extended-family structures don't lend themselves to defection because of the number of people this would involve, and those left behind would be in peril. Nevertheless, Rice spent most of an hour pushing Blix hard to agree to pursue Point 5 rigorously. "We will get the information," says a senior U.S. official, "(and) cross the bridge" later on how to make the interviews safer...
...least 130 people have been killed on Mt. Washington since 1849—more than on any other mountain in North America—and even experienced hikers aren’t immune to danger on the mountain, said Nicholas Howe, author of Not Without Peril: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Misadventure on the Presidential Range of New Hampshire...