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...wondering how the Asian-American community can mobilize to address issues having to do with individual ethnicities," Mah said. "The forum confirmed what I felt before--that Wen Ho Lee was a victim of racial profiling...
...games after the loss to the Big Green, Harvard (8-3-0, 8-1-0 ECAC) first crushed Boston College, Princeton and Yale before easily defeating the No.2 team in the nation, Brown. The Big Red was the next victim, and then the Saints, who were previously undefeated in the ECAC and were the only team to not fall to No. 1 Dartmouth. St. Lawrence tied the Big Green, 2-2, a week ago in Hanover...
...sleep was disrupted by three different phones ringing to the tunes of La Cucaracha, Fur Elise and the Ride of the Valkyries. With the C-Guard secreted in my briefcase, I would lie in wait for some Valkyrie-riding nitwit to make my day. Just as my unsuspecting victim's phone trilled, say, the Mexican Hat Dance, I'd jam down the button. "Hello?" he'd bleat pathetically. "Hello? Hello? Hello...
...memorable line, and it makes an appropriate title for Lardner's breezy, engaging memoir, I'd Hate Myself in the Morning (Nation Books; 198 pages; $22.95). Reams have been written about the Hollywood blacklist and the witch hunts of the late '40s and early '50s. Lardner was a notable victim of all this, not only serving a prison term for contempt of Congress but also finding himself barred for more than a decade from working for the major U.S. studios. He does not, however, write like a victim: "The blacklist did plenty of damage, but it was also a broadening...
...committed by an elder brother or sister. Sibling violence is the most common form of family violence, but it often goes undetected by authorities or is dismissed by parents as sibling rivalry. Parents should take complaints seriously, pay close attention to see if one child is always the victim of another, and seek professional help if needed...