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...says. “The impression is that past silence means it’s okay.” Harvard’s Asian-American community in general, to the dismay of many leaders within it, has historically been slow to anger and reluctant to speak out against perceived injustices. The Boxer Rebellion affair is symptomatic of a greater issue: when dealing with racism that takes more subtle forms than threats of violence or ethnic slurs, as Ho puts it, “You find yourself in this gray area, where the question is, is this a big enough deal...
...time. When she returned to America, ready to make her mark in talking pictures, the movie industry blackballed her. She was, she later recalled, invisible to the stars and moguls who had courted her a few years before. "It isn't that people turn their heads not to speak to you - they don't see you.... They look right at you and you don't exist." She made her last movie - a cheapo western with a pre-Stagecoach John Wayne - in 1938, and by 1946 she had to take a $40-a-week job as a sales girl at Saks...
...challenge of discerning God's call, having been there only a few years ago herself. According to Roy, the way in which God calls out to young adults in discernment varies greatly and can be difficult to understand. "They may be at church praying quietly and hear God speak through scripture that they're reading at mass that day," she explains. "They may run into a friend who was talking about something they were praying about two minutes ago. The coincidences? They aren't coincedences. It's God talking...
...There are Sunni ministries and Shi'ite ministres, and ours is known as a Sunni ministry," said one department official, who asked not to be identified because he is not authorized to speak with journalists. "I'm not surprised we were hit, but I never expected it would be such a big operation." The minister said both Sunni and Shi'ites were taken in the raid. Unconfirmed reports said around a dozen were released later...
...Jazeera English will explain the region. We will be much more qualified to speak about the Middle East because of our presence in the region. The role of the media is to give an honest understanding of reality. Had we been able to deal with the issue of the Middle East a long time before September 11, the roots of anger and frustration, maybe the decision makers would have taken steps to stop it before it becomes al-Qaeda...