Word: respondents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...straight ahead, their eyes glazed and puffy, their bodies rigid, unmoving. Their faces, lined with fatigue, show strain and distrust and are discolored by cuts and bruises. "How have you been shot down?" drills a harsh, disembodied voice. "What do you think about this aggression against Iraq?" The men respond woodenly, the rhythms of their speech halting and stilted. Some employ peculiar accents. One lapses into a singsong cadence. Another refuses -- or is unable -- to lift his head...
...success of Arab immigrants and their offspring has not protected them in the past, either from hate crimes or from subtler forms of discrimination. In recent days, press accounts have implied a lack of loyalty and patriotic zeal in the wake of war. Arab Americans respond that opinions may be divided -- as they are throughout the American public -- but loyalties are not. "Where else is my loyalty going to be?" asks Kay al-Askari, the northern New Jersey representative of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. "We've been here 35 years." Brenda Murad, a second-generation Lebanese American, agrees...
...passports, including legal residents of the U.S., from its flights. At airports, Arabs are intercepted by police, frisked and kept waiting for hours. The questions, says Boston attorney Susan Akram, are mostly insulting. "Police explain they are interrogating people for their own protection. Arab Americans feel an obligation to respond. Then the questions land. 'Do you know any terrorists? Do you know anybody who wants to blow up a federal building...
...LIBERALS like me respond to anti-war marchers with so much caustic intensity because we have decided not to be them. We call them "naive" and "Knee-jerk," and say they "give liberals a bad name." Through harsh words, we highlight our disassociation with them...
Liberals who participate in anti-war rallies respond so fiercely to liberals like us because they see us as traitors. They call us "sell-outs on sanctions" and "Uncritical," and say we "give liberals a bad name." Through harsh words they highlight their disassociation with...