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There has not yet been any publicized case of violence against Korean Americans in the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings, but discrimination often manifests itself in other ways. Some examples are blatant, such as conservative columnist Debbie Schlussel’s claim that the shooting was “yet another reason to stop letting in so many foreign students,” and the recently created Facebook group, “FUCK THAT ASIAN KID THAT SHOT UP VT.” Other examples are more subtle—that quiet Asian in the corner is no longer...
...wake of such a sickening tragedy as Virginia Tech, it’s tempting to pin the blame on whoever we can. In our grief, however, we must remember to divorce the murderer’s race from the murderer himself. These terrible incidents should be seen as they really are—isolated acts of evil committed by isolated people...
Harvard formally implemented the current three-tiered structure in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, but a tragedy six years before initially spurred Harvard to reconsider its response to emergencies, according to University spokesman Joseph Wrinn...
...success secured the band’s fate, both in the minds of its members and in the media.“Before we started on that project we had stalled,” says Rice. “Finishing was a big thing psychologically. You have to wake up every day and decide you want to be a band and if we’d failed it would have been hard to wake up at all.”“It also helped a lot that there was something for people who were writing blogs to talk...
...other side's demands. Yet for all the bitterness generated by the crisis, there is little appetite for a return to the sectarian bloodshed that destroyed the country between 1975 and 1990. The January riot that left several people dead and led to a nighttime curfew served as a wake-up call to Lebanese politicians of the heated emotions in their respective communities. This week's double murder even led to an unexpected reconciliatory phone call between Nasrallah and Jumblatt, who have been at loggerheads for months. An encouraging sign perhaps, but it may have come too late to soothe...