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...increasingly fed up with the government?s longstanding affirmative-action policy that favors Malays in everything from university education to government contracts. Many Indians, the country's poorest ethnic group, accuse the government of persistent racial discrimination and have over the past few months taken to the streets in rare protests. On Saturday, hundreds of Indians marched through Kuala Lumpur carrying roses they say symbolized their peaceful intent. Malaysian police responded with water cannons and tear...
...might try to build a film studies project around that, where the intellectual work would be industry-analytic and where the job that the student did would be a very small part of the overall work.” Even then, Connor says, this is rare. “It’s only happened in an exceptional way.”While the odds of integrating a job or internship in the arts with an academic schedule are slim, a few students have been successful in securing the college’s support for independent art projects pursued...
...little rewards feel like a fortune compared to the meager returns of a show like “24.” ABC has even given “Lost” the unique honor of working with a set conclusion in 2010. This gives the writers a rare upper hand in planning the rest of their machinations. Despite this development, I wonder if the story’s web has already spun out of control; with four new characters added just this week and three more promised for the episode yesterday, I’m not sure what kind...
...Unlike Puritan, legalistic Cambridge, where businesses close at 2 a.m. and liquor licenses are rare, New Orleans gives owners more free rein, Mr. Brush said...
...tell the entire story. If these problems offered sufficient explanations for terrorist action, sub-Saharan Africa would be teeming with terrorists, and the 9/11 hijackers would have hailed from the most impoverished sectors of their societies. In reality, terrorist cells in destitute areas of Africa are rare, and the members of al-Qaeda who executed the terrorist attack in 2001 predominately hailed from well-to-do families...