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...find Paris dauntingly cool and found myself instead in a Coca-Colonized country.The traditional notion of the French as stolid anti-Americans is complicated by their love for our pop culture. Many French critics hated the recently released “Simpsons” movie—one radio review called it vulgar, stupid, and American, as if the third adjective naturally followed the first two. Nonetheless, the movie stayed in theaters all summer and the show enjoys near universal popularity, as do other exported TV programs such as “Friends,” “Lost...
Currier’s looming Oct. 4 and 5 test dates drove the swift judicial review that led to yesterday’s ruling...
...Ren’s study, though it counters myth with hard numbers and quantifications, can yet do little to prevent subtle manifestations of prejudice. For example, at the height of the John Huang “Chinagate” scandal, the March 24, 1997 cover of the National Review portrayed the Clintons in Chinese clothes and hats, holding a pot of tea and displaying buck teeth. Many Asian American groups also complained of widespread discrimination among the community after media coverage of John Huang’s illegal dealings—for example, that the Democratic National Committee subsequently scrutinized...
...Communion is scheduled to review the Episcopal vote over the next few weeks. It is always possible that Williams will be able to forestall drastic action against the American church at least until all the Anglican Bishops gather at their once-a-decade Lambeth conference next July. However, both the liberal Episcopalians and the Communion conservatives seem so fixed in their positions that it is hard to imagine that the current delicate balance can be sustained too much longer...
...while expeditious review and expanded quotas are urgently needed, they will not affect the welfare of the several million Iraqis who have lost their homes and their livelihoods. If the Administration is to ease the toll on Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan and Syria and persuade them to welcome Iraqis in need, it must extend massive assistance to those governments to help fund shelter, food, sanitation, health care and transportation for arriving Iraqis. Among the 200,000 Iraqi children who have fled to Jordan, only 20,000 started school in the past year, and 6,000 of them dropped...