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...mostly. The 1960s civil rights movement had swept away official racism in the U.S., along with the last anti-miscegenation laws. But word had evidently not yet reached the Chais' corner of South Dakota-a bleak, windswept realm of farming and ranching, where rising interest rates and falling prices for agricultural goods were pushing many of their neighbors toward bankruptcy. "My father didn't realize that he was moving his family into a region whose economic base was, in fact, being devastated," says Chai. That economic anxiety, plus growing unrest among Native Americans on nearby Indian reservations, only deepened...
...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 just weird, but also potentially dangerous...
...failing to make payments on a $130,000 loan and four months’ worth of rent. And last week a Cambridge District Court judge gave Chen the go-ahead to begin the process of taking back possession of the property, which is located across from Mather, on the corner of Flagg and Banks Streets. “The store is open, but it’s not in good shape,” Chen said before the court handed down its ruling. “The inventory is low, and not nicely done. If I take it back...
...photographs in the entire exhibition. Here, “Rural Tibetan kitchen” (1923) and “Tibetan apothecary” (1923) hang side-by-side, forming an informal diptych.In the kitchen, a thin golden streak of light streams diagonally from a window in the top-right corner of the image. A window in the apothecary lets through light in the opposite direction from the top-left corner. Viewed together, the two shafts of light form an inverted pyramid that holds the two photographs in luminous harmony. Both interiors are decorated sparsely and attractively, with multicolored accessories...
...order to reveal the violence that plagues the town. The reasons for the chaos are unclear, but the band’s sinister, plastic presence seems like the driving force. The animals in the zoo are let free and run amok. Violence and nudity await at every street corner...