Word: tokening
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...found that I could use this truncated version of my cultural identity as a means of setting myself apart, if and when I felt compelled to. I was the token Indian who gave cultural presentations about South Asia in World Cultures class. Clad in a traditional salwaar kameez, I would bring in Indian snacks and handicrafts, and explain to my—no doubt fascinated—classmates that India is a land of great diversity, where 21 different languages are spoken, and that’s not even counting the dialects! One year I wore one of my Indian...
...year. This year, it received sponsorship from the Undergraduate Council, the Harvard Foundation, the Harvard School of Public Health Dean’s Office, the GSE and other sources from across campus. But without exclusive recruitment and without a stronger Native studies presence, the University will only be making token gestures and continue to fail to uphold its end of a 300-year-old promise...
...mails processed—according to the e-mail-filtering firm MessageLabs. The virus launched a vengeance Denial of Service attack against the SCO Group, a company that has claimed ownership of some of the code used in open-source Linux distributions. With millions of computers sending token bits of data 12 times every second, Mydoom’s attack would have easily overrun SCO’s servers. But SCO just changed its domain name temporarily and avoided the Mydoom-mediated wrath of its pro-open-source assailants. Though Mydoom failed in its main objective, it succeeded in proving...
...were on Alias. You're going to be on The Simpsons. You can be the token Brit on every American show...
...regularly made to his factories by extortionists asking for money. He once refused to pay up. The result: his workers were attacked on their way to work, and the extortionists threatened to do damage to his factories. In the end, he closed one of them down. For truckers, the token scheme ceased to function about a year ago. The result is that on average a truck on its way from Dhaka to the port city of Chittagong, the country's most important commercial route, is stopped 8-12 times by extortionists. Trucks are frequently hijacked at night, and drivers...