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...their school. So you're dealing with a lot of identity issues." Nam says that these girls are confronted with a troublesome stereotype, that of the passive, docile, exotic, quiet Asian woman. Says Nam, "There is no single, prescribed way of growing up Asian and female. Our stories reveal disparate family and cultural histories, class struggles, and ethnic-specific issues." She is triumphant, after several years of work on the book, to have her vision realized. "This reminds girls that they're not alone...
...parents Kindlon interviewed expressed the bewilderment that many parents reveal in the face of today's challenging parenting environment. Almost half said they were less strict than their parents had been. And they too, like the parents in the TIME/CNN poll, pleaded overwhelmingly guilty to indulging their children too much. "It's not just a little ironic," Kindlon writes, "that our success and newfound prosperity--the very accomplishments and good fortune that we so desperately desire to share with our children--put them at risk...
...Anwar thinks it should. At a crowded refugee camp in a mosque not far from Bukit Indah, the 30-year-old farmer lifts his shirt to reveal thick, track-like scars, the remnants of wounds he says he received last summer when soldiers, assigned to defend ExxonMobil employees and property, whipped him nightly for a month with ropes of barbed wire. He was also burned with cigarettes and beaten unconscious with a wooden board. They did not kill him, but he wishes they had. Then he would not have had to watch the soldiers shoot his brother in the head...
...this case, is what divides the U.S. into 435 congressional districts. Every ten years, using new census information, legislatures across the country redraw lines for their states? congressional districts to accommodate shifts in population. What changes did the 2000 count turn up? The new numbers reveal a continuing shift of population from the Northeast to the South and West. For example, New York and Pennsylvania, both Democrat-friendly states, lost two congressional seats each. Connecticut, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, and Mississippi are also losing one seat each. On the other hand, Republican-friendly states like Arizona, Texas, Florida...
...Washington's conflicting messages reveal a deeper dilemma for the Bush administration, where domestic political instincts are coming into conflict with Mideast foreign policy imperatives. Overwhelming support for Israel on Capitol Hill may be a reason for the Bush administration to avoid any positions that may be deemed inimical by Prime Minister Sharon, but Washington's allies in the Arab world have been incensed by the reluctance of the U.S. to rein in the Israelis. The U.S. has been forced to call off new air raids against Iraq because it's unable to find support for such action from Saddam...