Experienced, articulate and ambitious, Mr. Anwar has through sheer force of personality been the linchpin of a sometimes fractious coalition that includes Islamists, ethno-nationalists, non-Muslim ethnic minorities, socialist democrats and economic liberals.

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They said they had a few people on the list but they hadn't been able to match anybody up from a non-white ethnic group for the last two years, so we thought we would be wasting our money.

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The expansion of mother tongue-based literacy programmes is an immediate response to the large mass of non-literate and disadvantaged castes and ethnic groups of women learners in Nepal.

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These attitudes span all ages, ethnic groups and economic groups, but non-voters are particularly prevalent among the young, poor and minorities, studies show.

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Attempts to form a national army have been hampered by a lack of non-partisan army volunteers and problems with convincing the different ethnic factions about how much representation they should have in the army.

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Non-contiguous enclaves -- drawn as much by war and ethnic cleansing as by traditional demographics -- will simply invite future conflict, not diminish its likelihood.

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Attempts to form a national army have been hampered by a lack of non-partisan army volunteers and problems with convincing Afghanistan's different ethnic factions on how much representation they should have in the army.

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Thus, ethnic Asians together constitute 93 percent of foreign residents, and non-Asians only 7 percent.

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And these figures do not take into account postgraduates, non-British undergraduates, or undergraduates who preferred not to identify themselves as belonging to a specific ethnic group, he added.

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