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Aside from the degrading portrayal of immigrants of any origin, the article vastly misconstrues the Muslim religion. It portrays Islam in the way it has been characterized in America for decades—as a violent, emotion-based, patriarchal, inhumane religion. One of the clearest examples of this mischaracterization appears in Lee’s example of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who is waging a public battle against what he calls “a culture of forced marriages and sexual abuse in the Netherlands’ Muslim immigrant population…practices she unapologetically label[s] ‘backward...

Author: By Nura A. Hossainzadeh, Hebah M. Ismail, and Priscilla J. Orta, S | Title: Column Rehashes Stereotypes of Islam | 12/9/2002 | See Source »

...clearest reason for the Spartans’ renaissance is the addition of two Dutch players, sophomores Annebet Beerman and Judith van Haeringen. The former is the center forward who leads the Big Ten in scoring, while the latter is the center back who’s the No. 2 scorer on the team. The pair has been a force on the Spartan’s corner battery this year. In Harvard’s 2-0 loss at Michigan St. last year, both goals come off corners, and one was from Beerman...

Author: By David R. De remer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Underdog Field Hockey Maintains Confidence | 11/15/2002 | See Source »

...A.M.A. issued a report last year summarizing the body of knowledge about medical marijuana. It's shockingly slim. Dr. Abrams in San Francisco has produced some of the clearest evidence to date of pot's therapeutic value. Even though his clinical trial was designed merely to investigate whether marijuana is safe for hiv patients, he also turned up data that anyone who ever had the munchies already knew: pot makes you hungry. Test subjects who smoked marijuana gained an average of 6.6 lbs. during the trial, compared with 2.4 lbs. for the group taking the placebo. Some other findings from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Pot Good For You? | 11/4/2002 | See Source »

...Hispanic whites still account for 69% of the U.S. population and maintain a predominant share of the nation's fiscal and political power. But by 2059 at the latest, according to U.S. Census figures, there will no longer be a white majority in America. Sacramento, then, provides perhaps the clearest view into the nation's future--a glimpse into what our neighborhoods, schools, churches and police forces may look like just a few decades from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sacramento: Where Everyone's a Minority | 9/2/2002 | See Source »

...Hispanic whites still account for 69% of the U.S. population and maintain a predominant share of the nation's fiscal and political power. But by 2059 at the latest, according to U.S. Census figures, there will no longer be a white majority in America. Sacramento, then, provides perhaps the clearest view into the nation's future-a glimpse into what our neighborhoods, schools, churches and police forces may look like just a few decades from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welcome to America's Most Diverse City | 8/25/2002 | See Source »

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