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cultures is a difficult part of having an immi
grant family, Shrawan Gaitonde said it makes
life interesting.
“When your parents grow up with different
cultures and ideals, you don’t have the same
pressures or atmospheres when you go home,”
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Texas A&M. "You can take the good (aspects)
from both the cultures and to make your own
distinct culture."
Gaitonde said in most cultures, gender affects
how children form their cultural identity.
“There is not as much pressure to conform to
both cultures if you are a guy," he said
Deeptavarni, now a parent herself, said4
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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
New Zealand author reveals
she has terminal cancer
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Janet
Frame, one of New Zealand’s most celebrated
authors, has revealed she is terminally ill with
cancer.
In an interview with the Sunday Star Times
newspaper, the reclusive Dunedin writer said
she has acute myeloid leukemia, a cancer of the
blood and bone marrow, and is being kept alive
by blood transfusions.
Frame, whose account of her childhood and
experiences in mental hospitals inspired Jane
Campion’s 1990 film “An Angel at My Table,”
said she was diagnosed with cancer on Aug. 28
— her 79th birthday.
She was reported to be on the short list for a
Nobel Prize in literature at the time.
“I haven’t gone into a sudden decline, which I
might go into. I'pn feeling just a bit tired," she told
the newspaper.
She published 11 novels and autobiographi
cal works and five collections of short stories.
Frame said she still had stories she wanted to
write. She’d been working on a book, but has
put it aside “for the moment," she said.
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disgraceful than in how the environmentistep techn
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dependence on fossil fuels and not era
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servation measures.
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vowed to return to the measure early nexti
after falling two Senate votes short of sente
bill to Bush in November.
About 150 people attended Reid’s SI:
person fund-raiser at the south Reno mar
owned by John Harrah, son of casino loo
Bill Harrah. Reid, who’s up for re-election
year, has raised about $5.1 million.
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servationist Robert Redford criticized the Bush
administration’s energy legislation, calling it one
of the worst bills he’s seen in his lifetime.
At a news conference before attending a fund
raiser for Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., Redford said
the bill was flawed from the start.
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that she was a convicted felon. The tc
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national television reports. Whik
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despite several similar groping allegationsMrabilin
missed the lawsuit as an attempt to gainpii Seitert su
ity, and said he expects it to be thrown out. |["The i
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