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...cultural imperialist. In this non-American society, it is incredibly difficult--and most of the time, futile--to explain why one must not use the "n-word." In Russian, the normal word for someone who is black is very similar, and the term "black person" is considered pejorative. To suggest that they use the term "Afro-American" elicits eye-rolling and cackles of laughter. But it stings my American ears when my Russian friend responds, "What's the difference? A nigger is a nigger." What this phrase means to him may be different from what it means...
...cultural imperialist. In this non-American society, it is incredibly difficult--and most of the time, futile--to explain why one must not use the "n-word." In Russian, the normal word for someone who is black is very similar, and the term "black person" is considered pejorative. To suggest that they use the term "Afro-American" elicits eye-rolling and cackles of laughter. But it stings my American ears when my Russian friend responds, "What's the difference? A nigger is a nigger." What this phrase means to him may be different from what it means...
Battipaglia adds that "wage increases will be more than offset by productivity gains, despite the remarkably low U.S. unemployment rate--4.2% in May, matching a 29-year low--that might be expected to force pay and prices up faster. Employers will have less trouble than the jobless rate might suggest in finding the workers they need, he says, for three reasons. First, "you have had a tremendous amount of downsizing that freed up a lot of individuals who are now coming back" into the work force. Also, "second wage earners"--primarily wives and husbands--who may not have been counted...
...perpetrated by Milosevic), if the trouble spot is strategically important (a pan-Balkan war would have tested Eastern Europe's stability), and if the military operation can be undertaken without exacting a heavy price. It is easy to see these ideas as a possible future for American policy. They suggest a nice admixture of realism with ideology: Milosevic's army committed horrors in Kosovo, but even Clinton recognizes that he would never have bombed to try to stop it if it had meant risking war with Russia. And it is still a policy that tolerates some relativism...
Combs isn't talking, but conversations with his friends and associates suggest that an array of factors suddenly converged to push his sometimes volatile temper over the red line. After he filmed the mock crucifixion scene for the Nas video Hate Me Now, Combs had second thoughts that the imagery might be considered blasphemous. So as he often does, he consulted his religious adviser, the Rev. Hezekiah Walker of the Pentecostal Love Fellowship Tabernacle in Brooklyn, N.Y., where Combs worships. "I told him to cut the video," Walker told TIME. "Sean has a strong spiritual sense...