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...office (on a lean $65,000 budget) and earned an Oscar nomination. The movie also allowed Spurlock to become his own little doc-conglomerate, hosting and producing the TV series 30 Days and lending his exec-producer imprimatur to such like-minded nonfiction films as The Third Wave (Americans in post-tsunami Sri Lanka) and What Would Jesus Buy? (on the super-SantaClausification of Christmas...
...Foreign Affairs Department in Khotan said he wasn't aware of such a policy.) Some Uighurs, who are a central Asian people ethnically much closer to Turks than Chinese, expressed fears that their culture and way of life could be threatened by a steady influx of Han Chinese. The wave of immigration has seen the Han share of the province's population - estimated at about 6% in 1949 - rise to an official 40%, a figure that is much higher if millions of undocumented migrant workers are included. That massive immigration has transformed the north of the province, effectively establishing...
...provoke with this book?JL: The large aim of the book is to make people think twice about what it means to be American. And that in a post-1965, post-Open Door Act world, when we’re in the midst of the largest non-European wave of immigration ever, our center of gravity of what it means to be American shifts. And as much as the mainstream changes immigrants, immigrants change the mainstream. That’s the point I’m trying to make.THC: So that’s your main message. JL: Yeah...
...born in Kampala, Uganda. My ancestors had moved there from India, part of a wave of migration that began in the 1880s, when the British brought over Indian indentured laborers to build the East African railway. They were followed by Indian entrepreneurs and the impoverished, all hoping to make good in that fecund land...
...thought his response in Indiana, in which he reemphasized the point he was making rather than apologize or "clarify" it, was sensible and refreshing," said Thomas Mann, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington. Though the first wave of criticism focused on Obama's use of the word "bitter," over the weekend critics concentrated more on Obama's use of the word "cling" and the negative connotation it gave to people's attachments to guns and God. "I think you're on dangerous ground when you morph that into suggesting that people's cultural values, whether its religion...