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好莱坞何以主导美国影院?

Christina Klein August 17, 2004

Signs Across the Atlantic: 'Europeans for Kerry!'

Shada Islam August 12, 2004
With the US presidential elections nearing, Europe is carefully evaluating its tumultuous relationship with its transatlantic neighbor. Shada Islam, a Brussels-based journalist who specializes in EU foreign policy, says that differences between the two sides run almost as deep as the ocean that separates them. The relationship between the EU and the Bush administration has been plagued by...

Kuala Lumpur Cracking Down on Illegals – Again

Leslie Lau August 12, 2004
Malaysia, a nation of 24.5 million inhabitants, has over 1.3 million legal foreign workers and another 700,000 who are undocumented. Though these migrants generally have jobs that are low paying and unattractive to native Malaysians, public sentiment has turned against them, says this article in Singapore's Straits Times. Some Malaysian natives have begun to blame the country’s recent...

Many Bay Area Immigrants Have Split Olympic Loyalties

Mark Emmons August 11, 2004
Sporting allegiance can be a telling indication of personal identity, particularly in such a multi-cultural place as the San Francisco Bay, where nearly one in three people was born outside of the United States. Such immigrants often wrestle with multiple identities in deciding whether to root for athletes from their native land, or nationals of their adopted country. In this article, Mark...

Mapuche Indians in Chile Struggle to Take Back Forests

Larry Rohter August 11, 2004
Chile’s native Mapuche people have struggled against the government since the arrival of the Spaniards. In those colonial days, the Mapuches were pushed south of Chile’s Bío-Bío river, where they retained formally recognized autonomy. After Chilean independence, however, they were forcibly incorporated into the state and, decades later, pushed onto reservations so as to make room for European...

Olympics in an Age of Global Broadcasting

Emma Wensing August 10, 2004
For forty years now, the Olympic Games have been televised to audiences around the globe, providing a public forum for assertions of national greatness and claims of superiority. In this context, writes Olympics scholar Emma Wensing, international sport "can be seen as a substitute for war, as physical prowess becomes a measure of a nation’s standing on an international stage." Yet...

Rolling Stoned

Seema Sirohi August 10, 2004
Hollywood’s casting of two Asian Americans in lead roles has caught the attention of the non-US press. Writing for Outlook India, Seema Sirohi says that “Harold and Kumar go to White Castle,” which features one Korean American and one Indian American as its protagonists, “makes cinematic history as the first mainstream film with not one but two Asian leads as real as any other twentysomething...