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...talking about today's Caucasians. I'm saying they had 'Caucasoid-like' characteristics. There's a big difference." Says Owsley: "[Kennewick Man] is not North American looking, and he's not tied in to Siberian or Northeast Asian populations. He looks more Polynesian or more like the Ainu [an ethnic group that is now found only in northern Japan but in prehistoric times lived throughout coastal areas of eastern Asia] or southern Asians...
...cricket is catching on. There, pay-per-view cable subscribers forked out roughly $50 million to watch the 2005 Test series between India and Pakistan, making the U.S. the third-biggest revenue source for that tournament. (The ICC says those statistics are partly explained by 2 million ethnic South Asians living...
...dinner yesterday in Adams Conservatory, the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) and the Association of Black Harvard Women (ABHW) hosted a discussion on the issues that minority women face in identifying with feminism. Some attendees argued that minority women feel compelled to show solidarity with the men of their ethnicity or race. “You’re not allowed to be black and female; you have to be one, and that’s a problem in society,” ABHW member Kelly L. Lee ’07 said. Another ABHW member, Kaya N. Williams...
...even greater challenge. The strategy for drawing down U.S. force levels, after all, has been predicated on replacing them with Iraqi units. But the sectarian upsurge has also highlighted the troubling extent to which many of the men in the most capable Iraqi security units remain loyal to ethnic and sectarian agendas. Shi'ite leader al-Hakim, for instance, had initially blamed the Samarra bombing in part on Khalilzad's pressure on his party to relinquish control of the Interior Ministry, which controls some 110,000 police and paramilitary personnel-many of whom are drawn from Shi'ite militias...
...atypical of Australia - I don't mean that rudely"), he says: "I travel the country with relentless evenness and regularity." But many of his touchstones are outdated. The suburbs of Sydney where Howard was raised in the postwar years are like palimpsests. The postcodes have not changed, but the ethnic and social norms have been overwritten thrice...