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Asked about the black political movement today, he responds, "What movement?" Black leaders? "We have Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice, but it does not mean anything to black America, which is still under assault from the social practices of this society." Bill Cosby's criticisms of black parenting? "A billionaire attacking poor people for being poor. Bill Cosby is a clown. What do you expect? I thought it was unfair of him." His modest, soft-spoken manner belies what is obviously a deep sense of grievance. He describes sitting down at a counter not long ago and watching a white...
...Korean government returned to Japan the cremated ashes and bone fragments of Megumi Yokota, a Japanese girl who was kidnapped by the North Koreans in the 1970s and later committed suicide. After running DNA tests, Japanese officials said the remains were not Yokota's, and they blocked North Korean rice shipments in protest. But now they have announced that the remains might be Yokata's. I am deeply shocked that I have heard nothing of that in the Japanese media. From the very beginning, Japan has handled the case of the kidnapped Japanese citizens very clumsily, if not slightly dishonestly...
...seem increasingly drawn together on big issues, there are still little things that give them their individuality. Clinton likes to schmooze with the crowds, which produces his famed tardiness and brings a benign impatience to the always punctual Bushes. Clinton's excessive volubility sometimes drives Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice around the bend. But President George H. W. chuckles and says, "Suits me. I don't have to do any talking." All of this drew attention to the new celebrity of the ex's on the world screen. Bigger than rock stars, more influential than television anchor people, when...
...Take, for example, the Thai Society’s New Years Party I attended last Monday. Had it not been for the Thai Society, I wouldn’t have 1) learned about the importance of Thai New Year or 2) have had the pleasure of trying mango sticky rice dessert. And there are many others like me. So many of these organizations encompass people that are not just descendants of a particular ethnicity, but that simply have an interest in that ethnicity and its concomitant culture. The South Asian Association’s main cultural production, Ghungroo, swells every...
...miles from Nevado del Ruiz, in the Lagunilla River canyon, lay Armero. A thriving agricultural center of whitewashed, tile-roofed homes and pastel colonial churches, the town had taken little part in the more turbulent eras of modern Colombian history. The region's wealth is based on cotton and rice farming. The surrounding Lagunilla River canyon contains some of the country's finest agricultural land...