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...been affected by this new presence because it represents a change in a world that has remained relatively the same since I’ve been gone. I may only go home for a couple of weeks a year, but my room—and my status in the house—has always been preserved, allowing me to return and fall back into a place reserved for me. Apparently, my family goes on without me while I’m at school 2,000 miles away, but for that brief time when I return, I wouldn?...
...make an advertising message culturally relevant, says Saul Gitlin, executive vice president at Kang & Lee Advertising, you have to do more than toss a desi face into a commercial. Values such as education, hierarchy and status are unshakable for desi families, even if modified to reflect American lifestyles. "There's a core belief in higher education and studying and saving," says Phil Salis, vice president of consumer marketing at MetLife, which has created desi-specific television advertising to run on satellite channels such as ZEE TV, B4U, Sony TV and TV Asia. He's not kidding: 64% of Indians...
...with since 1994, making this the longest the court has gone without any change in its membership since the 1820s. The less anticipated resignation of O'Connor, 75, abruptly raised the stakes. A contest over Rehnquist's successor would be pitched enough, but his departure would likely preserve the status quo. Rehnquist has been a consistent conservative vote on the court, and if he was succeeded by another firm conservative, the court's ideological balance would stay the same. O'Connor is another matter. For much of her 24 terms, she has been a critical swing vote on inflamed issues...
Congress could clear this legal thicket by approving the proposed Dream Act, which would repeal the federal residency-rule ban and grant temporary legal status to undocumented graduates of U.S. high schools. But despite bipartisan support, the bill has failed to get to the floor in the past two sessions of Congress. "The Federal Government hasn't shown much interest in sending [illegal immigrants] home," says Sue Storm, sponsor of the Kansas bill. "It's in all our best interests for them to be educated." Opponents don't buy that brand of pragmatism. "It's so politically correct...
...National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, which surveyed more than 90,000 junior-high and high-school students from 175 schools in 80 communities around the country. Students taking the survey were asked to define their own ethnicity, Fryer said. Rather than allow students to define their own social status, the authors created a “spectral popularity index” to measure, for each student, the number of same-race friends within his or her school. They then weighted each student’s popularity by the popularity of each friend...