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...Oganisyan had been working as a translator and fixer with two brothers who were envoys from Chechnya, a Caucasian region that has long sought independence from Moscow. They had been sent to London by the charismatic but volatile Djokar Dudayev, Chechnya's self-styled President. Ter-Oganisyan tipped off Armenia's security service that the two Chechens were planning to buy 2,000 Stinger missiles. The Armenians believed the weapons were destined for their archenemy, Azerbaijan. To stop the trade, two agents arrived in London to murder Dudayev's envoys. (The murders were uncovered when a packing case fell...
...blackjack team that inspired the book “Bringing Down the House” and the movie “21,” and David A. Irvine, a former member of the team. “21” has received heavy media attention for using mostly Caucasian actors to portray a team that some say was mostly Asian, but neither instructor was critical of the decision. “The Asian controversy is an inaccuracy,” Kaplan says. “We got up to 80 players...
...Then there's Canada. Sylvie, the Singaporean daughter of an immigrant family, adores her new Canadian school uniform because it is "of higher quality ... nothing like the scratchy, polyester-mix affairs" of Singapore, which "dumb you down." Meanwhile her grandfather, a literary man, apparently thinks of Sylvie's Caucasian classmates as "big, strong, beefy ... like female Goliaths." In a crowd of them, we are told, an Asian student stands out like a "gazelle among elephants." But do Asian intellectuals really see Caucasian children this way? Such stereotyping may have occurred decades ago (although there is plenty of evidence to show...
...stands to lose quickly more than a handful of NYU sweatshirts. Rather, a precious and still-resilient resource may become endangered: the supply of congenial, self-satisfied enrollees more interested in making friends than meeting recruiters or Pulitzer winners. What, then, will we tell applicants worried that the stodgy Caucasian snow-globe rendered in the cinema classic and Wu-Tang romp “How High” is no fiction...
...nonsense. Despite their steady dwindling, hate crimes and racial tension persist across the country. While these phenomena certainly don’t indicate any peculiar suppression or active organized racism, to make the claim that even the Democratic electorate actually prefers a black man to his Caucasian equivalent—Ferraro called Obama “lucky”—is to presume an epiphany of toleration among the people for whom ‘the Bradley Effect’ was conceived...