Police and news media reports in recent months have indicated a continued flow of attacks, often against victims wearing traditional Muslim garb or seen as Middle Eastern.
"We're encouraged," she added, "that recent months have indicated an upward trend" in categories including magazines for parents, teenagers and young men, as well as those focused on the home, "which are benefiting from the 9/11 nesting effect".
"What the last few months have indicated to us is that there are many different minority groups in the U.S. that aren't treated the way their counterparts are treated.
Blackstone, which last month had indicated an offer of more than $14.25 a share for control of Dell, had been seen as the best chance for a higher bid to the proposed buyout.
The manager is under contract for 17 more months but has indicated he will review his position in the summer.
Despite an offer this week to restart shipments of fertiliser to the North this month, Seoul has indicated that aid will not be fully resumed without progress on the nuclear issue.But North Korea has toughed out hard times before.
Representative Gary L. Ackerman of New York, who was in the briefing, said the length of an extension is another sticking point: the administration is pushing for two months, while Mr. Netanyahu has indicated that he is not willing to go beyond one month, if he agrees at all.
For months now, he has indicated that those who oppose his election will use his race to scare voters.
Given his time served, he could be released in a matter of months, but the administration has indicated that it will simply declare him an enemy combatant in order to hold him indefinitely despite the ruling of its own tribunal.
In recent months, the Obama administration has indicated a renewed commitment to the issue of school desegregation, although few concrete actions have come to fruition.
