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...remaining two large American Islamic blocs have roughly parallel histories. The majority of Arab and South Asian (Indian subcontinental) believers began arriving here in the late 1960s in response to changes in immigration law and home-country programs that subsidized study here. The students became professionals and put down roots. They were joined by relatives and by refugees from various international upheavals. Most, while thrilled at America's free speech and its economic prospects, were shocked by the materialism, secularism and free morality that they encountered. Settling into lives as doctors, engineers or grocery-store owners, they contended with malls...
...could keep falling. But any further decline would be tortured and not amount to much. Why? The average 30-year fixed rate stands at about 6.89%, vs. a low of 6.68% in 1998--a level that didn't last long and was the lowest average mortgage rate since the 1960s. If rates sink much lower, virtually everyone with a mortgage will be an instant candidate for refinancing. The volume of new business would overwhelm bankers, who'd no longer have a reason to drop rates aggressively. Already there's evidence that bankers are getting their fill. Since June, the decline...
...through its graduates, its researchers or as an institution. While the Kellers dont deny that the story of modernization at Harvard is informed by modernization on a national scale, they limit themselves from the start to events inside the ivory tower. In dealing with the turbulence of the late 1960s, for example, the Kellers focus is not on how the activists at Harvard resembled and differed from radicals across the country, but rather on the effects of the turbulence on the governance and character of the institution...
...problem of fitting the events to the main themes becomes more serious when it comes to the discussion of the crises of the late 1960s. The Kellers do not really assert that the takeovers of University buildings grew out of inherent failings of the meritocratic University. Nor do they make a clear enough case for how the events bring about worldliness. They do a good job of describing the causal relationship between the takeovers and the shifts in the Universitys administrative culturethe professionalization of its governance. But the turbulence seems disconnected and the foundation of the case...
...promise. “Spacemoth” is a genre-fusion that starts out as a campy rendition of Danny Elfman film score, but halfway it is unexpectedly broken up by a frenetic drum beat, interspersed with wailing horns. Suddenly, these horns lead into a rollicking 1960s R&B finish. “Captain Easychord” is an engaging interplay of pop genres. It starts out with a John Lennonesque piano melody, lapses briefly into slide guitar (á là the Beatles’ “Get Back”), then rides out in electronic mode...