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Discrimination affects the half-black children most deeply, but the lighter-skinned Eurasians suffer also. Other students know these kids' mothers are probably prostitutes, and schoolyard taunts reflect that open secret. "I don't want them talking bad about my mother," says Bryan Enders, an 11-year-old whose American father died of cirrhosis of the liver two years ago. "But I can't say anything, because they will beat me up." Even the teachers sometimes pitch in, blaming the biracial students for fomenting classroom dissent. "They act up more than others," says Juanita de la Cruz, who has five...
Quincy residents who know Kirshner through classes and an academic setting, said they expect him to reflect the same enthusiasm and passion onto the things he will accomplish in the House...
...TIME 2000: How We Remember From Vietnam to Oklahoma City, America's new memorials help us come to terms with the tragic past. But they also reflect the complicated present
...While fully aware of the difficulties, Barshefsky, now a visiting public-policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, argued that the FTAA talks reflect "a convergence in our hemisphere along the lines of market economics, democracy, shared ideals and common aspirations." She was hopeful about the will of the Bush administration to support the FTAA process, and even try to push it faster by agreeing to put such controversial U.S. practices as antidumping legislation on the table for improvement. And she downplayed the divergences among countries on a bulky, draft version of the trade agreement with the observation...
...Americas, which begins in Quebec City on April 20 - this Summit of "La Gran Familia" of the Americas - has special significance. It is the first meeting of the heads of state and government of the region's democracies in the new millennium and thus an auspicious occasion to reflect on our shared accomplishments and to renew our shared resolve to meet the challenges of the future...