Word: whiteness
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...most beautified Ophelia" is another willful creature, no less flirtatious with her brother Laertes than she is crazy for Hamlet. As a girl-child unable to cope with the roiling emotions of passion and rejection, Simmons aces her mad scene and makes a most picturesque suicide, in a weedy white dress, supine in a stream. "She was lovely in both of them," Powell wrote of Simmons in his autobiography, "I don't think that she was ever quite so good again." (See Jean Simmons on the cover of TIME...
...industrialists who flocked to the Côte d'Azur before the 1917 Russian Revolution, the cathedral became a spiritual and cultural focal point for the mass of exiles who fled to Nice during the Soviet era. Since the fall of communism nearly 19 years ago, the so-called white Russian community and its offspring have been joined by Russian jet-setters who've grown extremely wealthy under the country's current leadership and bought pricey mansions in Nice to use as their second homes. (See a brief history of Russians and vodka...
...Census is testing during the 2010 count is allowing respondents to check more than one box not just for race but for Hispanic origin as well. A popular rally cry during the push to allow multiple races was, Why should a person with one black parent and one white parent be forced to choose between them? Indeed, why should a person with a Hispanic mother and non-Hispanic father be any different...
Another change under review is letting people who check "white" or "black" to write in more specific information afterward. In recent years, groups representing a number of backgrounds, including Afro-Caribbean and Arab, have lobbied to be included separately on the Census instead of being confined to broad categories (black for people of Afro-Caribbean decent; white for those with Arab ancestry). By trying out additional write-in blanks, the Census is attempting to see what other designations it might be able to reliably collect data about...
...electable, and no American President is ever going to appoint him to anything," says Kevin Sullivan, former White House press secretary under George W. Bush and now a p.r. consultant. "But the American public is very forgiving." Sullivan, who admits he'd never take Edwards on as a client, nevertheless had some advice: tell it first, tell it all and tell it yourself. The ship has sailed on a couple of those - unless of course, there are more skeletons in the Edwards' well-appointed closets. So even though some people are begging Edwards to just go away, he needs...