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...parentage, must be legitimized through love; otherwise, it is only a fact of geography or biology. Most immigrants to America found their love of their old homes betrayed. Whether Ireland starved them, or Nazi Germany persecuted them, or Viet Nam drove them into the sea, they did not really abandon their countries; their countries abandoned them. In America, they found the possibility of a new love, the chance to nurture new selves...
...Although Pei's success in the U.S. was growing, he "had trouble cutting the ties" to China. In 1954, one year before he started his own firm, he became a citizen, along with his wife. "We had mixed feelings. On the one hand, feelings of sorrow at having to abandon our culture, our roots and our ancestral home. On the other hand, feelings of gratitude -- more than happiness. Those mixed feelings disappeared ten years later when President Lyndon Johnson invited me to participate in a ceremony on Ellis Island. It was then that I felt very much like an American...
...Kremlin's newfound desire to forbid research is almost surely a cynical bargaining ploy that the U.S.S.R. will abandon if the negotiations in Geneva ever turn serious. Privately, some Soviet officials are already hinting that , their side might settle for a moratorium on the testing and deployment of new defensive technologies, or perhaps an updated version of the 1972 ABM treaty that would set new limits on permissible levels of defense. Those are among the alternatives advocated by the more reasonable American critics of Star Wars, as long as the moratorium or updated ABM treaty is accompanied by significant reductions...
...After the news conference in Sao Paulo, moreover, Menachem Russek, the retired head of an Israeli police anti-Nazi unit, confessed that he was "not angry but disappointed" that Mengele had apparently died unregenerate and unpunished. Others were finding the Mengele myth equally difficult to abandon. "I admit to having hoped that Mengele would have been more intriguing than the other Nazi fugitives," acknowledged Archivist Posner. "A number of us had fantasies about a man living deep in a heavily guarded jungle compound surrounded by bodyguards and police dogs. Frankly, a lot of the material we have found is very...
Though George seems more comfortable on the air than when she began in January (she no longer flubs lines with abandon, like referring to Andrew Lloyd Webber as the composer of Jesus Christ Superstore), she is still capable of the silly gaffe. CBS executives stand strongly by her, even after her infamous invitation to Gary Dotson and Cathleen Crowell Webb, the main characters in the recent Chicago rape-testimony recantation, to hug on the air. "We needed a high-powered, experienced TV personality to draw people away from two established, successful competitors," says Executive Producer Jon Katz. "Phyllis George will...