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Americans like answers in black and white, a cultural trait we confirmed last year when the biracial man running for President was routinely called “black”. The flattening of Barack Obama’s complex racial background shouldn’t have been surprising. Many multiracial historical figures in the U.S.
While all eyes seem to be on "Slumdog Millionaire" for the Oscars, the eyes of a very courageous little girl will be focused on another India based film at the ceremony. It’s called “Smile Pinki” and it’s up for an Oscar too — nominated for best short documentary. The little girl watching it from inside the Oscar ceremony has traveled all the way from her small Indian village with her dad — and it has been an incredible journey for little Pinki Sonkar.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy is pledging $730 million (? 580 million) in economic aid to France’s Caribbean territories in an effort to head off escalating protests, his office said Friday.
Any sensible culture would know what to do with Annalisee Brasil. The 14-year-old not only has the looks of a South American model but is also one of the brightest kids of her generation. When Annalisee was 3, her mother Angi Brasil noticed that she was stringing together word cards composed not simply into short phrases but into complete, grammatically correct sentences
President Obama will pitch his plans this week for dealing with record home foreclosures and trying to thaw frozen credit markets — and taking some key lessons learned into consideration. Aides said the White House has learned several lessons from the fight over the economic stimulus plan, including that the president is better at selling his ideas when he gets out of Washington.
On an otherwise placid holiday weekend, one blog’s commentary on a change to Facebook’s terms of service created a firestorm of banter on the Web: does the social network claim ownership to any user content on the site, even if the user deletes it? Facebook reorganized its terms of service last Wednesday. In a blog post, company legal representative Suzie White provided an explanation
It’s 7 a.m. at Henry Ford Hospital, and surgeons are preparing to remove a cancerous tumor from a man’s kidney.
Scarcely a day passes in India by without news of an encounter between the police and criminals elements — “encounter” being the local jargon for shootouts involving the police, who are allowed to fire only in self-defense. On Wednesday, it was a “dreaded mafia don” who was gunned down by the Uttar Pradesh police — shot dead, and therefore unable to challenge the police account of the circumstances of the shooting. But some in India have begun to question the frequency of such “encounters”
The birth of a child fathered by a 13-year-old boy has sparked an uproar in Britain. Alfie Patten, who was only 12 when the baby was conceived with his girlfriend Chantelle Steadman, 15, was pictured on the front of Friday’s tabloid Sun newspaper with his daughter, Maisie Roxanne, after her birth Monday.
The stimulus bill likely has picked up the vote of one House Republican, with Rep. Anh "Joseph" Cao of Louisiana saying he’s "leaning yes" on the $787 billion economic package