Gypsies

SUBJECT OF

EVENTS (5)

October 17, 2006	A Gypsy pressure group filed suit to stop British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's latest film from being shown in Germany. The group accuses him of antiziganism, or hostility to gypsies; Cohen's fictional alter-ego Borat claimed that Gypsies had molested his horse.	Weekly Review By Gemma Sieff Source 1: Reuters via Yahoo Source 2: Wikipedia
May 14, 2004	European Union's envoy to Slovakia said that Gypsy children should be taken from their parents and put in boarding schools so that they can learn "European values."	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: Reuters
February 25, 2004	Gypsies rioted in Slovakia.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: New York Times
January 21, 2003	The United Nations reported that the Gypsies of Eastern Europe are getting poorer.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge
August 29, 2000	Three men beat a Gypsy woman, a mother of eight, to death in Slovakia.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge

November 2009

FINAL EDITION
Twilight of the American Newspaper
By Richard Rodriguez

THE INTELLIGENCE FACTORY
How America Makes Its Enemies Disappear
By Petra Bartosiewicz

PROSPEROUS FRIENDS
A story by Christine Schutt

Also: Frederick Seidel and Mark Kingwell