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...nation of immigrants from the beginning, the U.S. has welcomed most newcomers, grateful for any new pairs of hands to tame its vast interior or help stoke its huge industrial engine. For more than a century, most of the new arrivals were from Europe. But in the 1960s the U.S. undertook a basic shift in national policy, from one stacked in favor of European immigrants toward one that favored the rest of the world, particularly Third World nations. The full effects of that policy have exploded only in recent years. The past decade has seen the greatest rise in immigration...
...acronym, popularized in the early 1960s by sociologist E. Digby Baltzell, explains who Wasps are and -- more important -- were. White and Protestant are self-explanatory. Anglo-Saxon, a clumsy term, means English, plus English speakers from Northern Ireland and the Scottish lowlands. Wasps formed the vast majority of the early American population: 200 years ago, nearly all Americans were Protestant, and almost two-thirds were of "Anglo- Saxon" stock. First to come, first to serve: Wasps gave early America its first laws, religions and rhetoric, as well as a characteristic mental and personal style...
...fully; they are guesswork. There is only one safe prediction about the job market of the future: it will not bear much resemblance to the recent past. Asked when the job market might get back to normal, Greenberg of the A.M.A. states, "If your model for normal is the 1960s, '70s or '80s, we will never get back to normal because 'normal' is based on a whole set of global economic conditions that no longer apply." And that does not even take into account the relentless and accelerating pace at which technology is changing work as well as every other...
...young Sonny Rollins. Premature, of course, but it's been a long time since jazz produced a saxophonist with Redman's fearless improvisational skill and mature melodic sense. At 24, Redman already has plenty of name recognition. His father, Dewey Redman, made a reputation in the late 1960s as a saxophonist playing alongside Ornette Coleman. "But he wasn't a direct teacher or mentor," says Joshua, who, remarkably, taught himself by playing along with old records while growing up in Berkeley, California. Dewey moved to New York City before Joshua was born and never saw much of his son. Joshua...
Tiffany -- as I'm sure countless parents will argue -- is different. It sounds so mellifluous, so venerable, so upper-crust American. In the early 1960s, a pretty junior high classmate of mine served as a harbinger of the future by answering to Tiffany. Her we-should-have-seen-i t-coming destiny: a brief career as a braless starlet on a now forgotten TV sitcom...