Russia is a country that has rarely thought about questions of race, but today a thinly veiled racism pervades the

R ussia is a country that has rarely thought about questions of race, but today a thinly veiled racism pervades

Although this column deals with race, I will not start with qualifications, hesitations and disclaimers. I will not apologize for

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"A frustrated student sits at his desk..." Wait, maybe the student we're talking about is not male. "A frustrated student

In "Citizen Kane," when journalism tycoon Charles Foster Kane receives a telegram from his Latin American correspondent insisting that reporting

The word Jamaica means different things to different people. To the Native Americans who lived there, it was a "land

Dear God, During Yom Kippur services on Wednesday, I was a bit unfocused. Maybe I was a little out of

A few months ago, I met a Russian lawyer in New York who I asked for suggestions about what I

E veryone knows Russians love to drink. The Russian people's penchant for imbibing is the stuff of legend. It is