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...UNDER COVER: Kenji Yoshino, a gay Asian-American law professor at Yale, is outraged by the way that people of minority cultures are encouraged, or ordered, to hide cultural trademarks such as cornrows or yarmulkes. PW reports that Random House has purchased a book called "Covering: An Assault on Assimilation" for "a very handsome six figures." The book grew out of a NYT story that Yoshino wrote. Random House plans to publish the book in late 2003 or early...
...Suppose further you have heard that Bukit Indah's tranquility has been built on Aceh's ashes. You have been told the Indonesian troops whom ExxonMobil funds to protect you and your family?soldiers who salute you in the mornings?spend their nights burning villages, looting and killing at random. Activists are claiming that these troops have used your company's equipment to dig mass graves and are turning your company's warehouses into torture chambers. Imagine you have heard these things. Suppose they might really be happening. Does your conscience bother...
...125th Street and Lenox Ave. newspaper kiosk, I spotted a colorful brochure among a stack of giveaways. Multicolored lettering against neon orange implored: "Harlem: Your Uptown Spot to Shop!" Using this map of stores, restaurants, and services as a guide I made a random selection of locations and jumped to this new shopping challenge...
...ones that do, like Pittsburgh, Pa., are reluctant to make the raw data public. "Get in the habit of reporting that, and you can create controversy," says Robert McNeilly Jr., the city's police chief. He says random quarter-to-quarter fluctuations in the data would produce misleading headlines, like RACIAL PROFILING ON THE RISE IN PITTSBURGH. McNeilly says a federal auditor has consistently found that the city's police stop minorities in "pretty close" proportion to their all-around presence in the population...
...cites a 1998 study in a journal called Accident Analysis and Prevention showing that in 1973, 1986 and 1996, in random surveys of thousands of drivers across the U.S., African Americans were more likely than whites to fail breath tests for alcohol. (Hispanics were less likely to fail the tests than whites in 1973, but in 1986 and 1996, years that are under scrutiny in the racial-profiling debate, a greater percentage of Hispanics failed the test...