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By Andrew Q Lam - AOL News(July 30) -- I know a thing or two about the English language. I have published two books in it and written a third. For eight years I was a regular commentator on NPR's "All Things Considered." As a journalist, my articles have appeared in dozens of newspapers and magazines and hundreds of websites. My short stories and essays are anthologized and taught widely. I went to Berkeley and Stanford. I've been a subject of a PBS documentary and lectured at Ivy League schools. But I still have an accent. That's because I came to the U.S. at the age of 11 at the end of the Vietnam War, and though ...
Online Dating Mysteries Revealed
By Zubin Jelveh - AOL News(Nov. 12) -- Want to get an online date? Keep your messages short. For men, whites are the most likely to get a response online; Indians the least likely. Among women, Middle Easterners garner the most responses; black women the fewest Those are among the not-always-politically-correct findings unearthed by the statisticians at OkCupid, a free online dating site started by a group of Harvard graduates armed with math degrees. The 5-year-old site boasts 1 million active users -- comparable to Match.com and eHarmony, two services that require paid subscriptions. Like Match.com, OkCupid ...
A Black Disney Princess: "That's Evolution"
By Donna Britt - Politics DailyTo explain the importance of Disney's first black princess in an Obama-fied world, I must go back to the late 1980s and early 90s. I'd split from my first husband, was raising two boys alone, and was worried about role models. ...
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