Word: suburbanitis
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...notice Middle Easterners; in a sense, Obeidallah said, it made Middle Easterners notice themselves. "Before 9/11," he says, "I was white." In his stage act, he makes fun of a pundit's line that "Arabs are the new blacks." ("Oh, my God. We're cool!" he jokes, imagining white suburban kids wearing headdresses and saying "What up, Mustafa?") But there's something to the theory--just look at Barack Obama. His biggest problems with bigotry--besides being called "not black enough"--have been insinuations about his Muslim father, rumors that he attended a madrasah, jokes about his middle name (Hussein...
...final club library, it’s easy to get tripped up, easy to be trivialized, easy to oversimplify. Can an exploration of the influence of the patriarchy over women’s stunted liberation (sexual and otherwise) be bounded in the four walls of the suburban kitchen that many feminists characterized as the 1970s battleground of women’s rights? Women at Harvard are reluctant to join their sexualities and identities to political parties or groups of people; this is a legitimate sentiment, but too often the result is a muted or nonexistent reaction to sexism when...
...nearly three weeks, Grant's disappearance from her suburban home in Macomb County had dominated Detroit, pushing aside the region's larger, ongoing travail - the decline of Ford Motor Co. and reports that DaimlerChrysler wanted to dump its American partner. Then, last week, the grisly discovery of the missing woman's dismembered torso in the family garage shocked even the sheriff. "We were expecting to find a computer but we didn't think we'd find any remains or body parts. It was quite a surprise. It wasn't what we expected," said Sheriff Mark Hackel...
...suburban Baltimore research facility recently, a group of beta testers seemed to agree. "It makes me feel independent, and my friends can find me anytime," said Derrick, 12. Nick, 11, gleefully set his phone's calendar to remind him of his birthday until he turns 89. Not surprisingly, they were less thrilled with a feature that allows parents, using a website, to limit kids' calling hours or who can call them...
...draw Howard even further out of his comfort zone, Labor is dropping in former TV presenter Maxine McKew to challenge the P.M. in his electorate of Bennelong in suburban Sydney. Did anyone really believe Labor's new prima ballerina would be wasted as a strategic operative in Rudd's huddle? The gregarious McKew will be a hit with voters, especially those who swing between Labor and the Greens. Perhaps those dwelling in cement-rendered Putney mansions will opt for the well-heeled woman from Mosman instead of the man from Kirribilli who invites Dick Cheney over for a beer. Every...