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...case of Asian Americans, unkind regard is often accompanied, paradoxically, by a myth that they are a “model” minority that is not being victimized; consequently, events of violence and denigration are ignored as exceptional. Ironically, the result has been a pattern of sub-standard treatment that is as old as the 1854 California Supreme Court ruling of People v. Hall, which abnegated court testimony from Chinese Americans on grounds of their “inferiority” to whites, and as alive as the indefensible lenience recently shown to the white murderers of Vincent Chin...
Montauk, who is also a Crimson editor, has studied Arabic for the past four years and has recently focused her attention on the spoken dialects of Arabic, rather than the Modern Standard Arabic that is usually taught in schools including Harvard...
...That’s the standard line on Romanticism,” she said, and turned to her scone...
...life of skipping class, belly shirts, and strip clubs. But the plot seems secondary to director Luke Greenfield’s desire to experiment with the use of porn as a motif while still adhering to the restrictions of an R rating. The mold of the standard high school film is certainly broken with The Girl Next Door, but in this particular instance, the result is merely soft-core blandness...
Don’t expect liberals’ standard outrage to tarnish the United Nations’ reputation as a standard-bearer for all that’s good and true, despite the recent revelation that Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s son skimmed money off Iraq’s oil-for-food budget...