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...10th century, is older than Oxford, Cambridge or the Sorbonne; Cairo University, with 95,000 students, is not only the biggest university in the Middle East but one of the largest in the world. Cairo's four universities, indeed, turn out more graduates than the impoverished Egyptian economy can absorb, and more than 1 million of them now work, often in key positions, in other Arab countries. The remittances they send home, amounting to $500 million last year, help trim Egypt's huge balance of payments deficit...
...West Bank, with intense economic aid, could theoretically absorb all the Palestinian refugees; nonetheless, the new entity should have the right to impose immigration quotas. Palestinians who fled what is now Israel after 1948 would receive compensation for land they were forced to abandon. So would Jews who quit their Arab homelands and settled in Israel. The size of the payments would be set by an international commission created for this purpose and be financed by a multinational consortium, which would include Israel and the Arab states...
...problem cannot be solved by placing a few more guards along the border or by asking employers to stop hiring workers without papers. Heavy illegal immigration is a symptom of a more serious problem--the sad state of the Mexican economy. The U.S. economy can only be made to absorb so many millions of poor unemployed from Mexico. This is not to say there is nothing the United States can do to help, but ultimately Mexico will have to solve its own problems. The U.S. government cannot force the Mexican government to spend more money on population control...
...typical house is decorated with colonial furniture, plastic fruit, fluffy floral armchairs, commercial and authentic Indian crafts. The television forms the pulpit of the living room: children crowd around to absorb its technicolor wisdom. In the driveway is a small car, an old Honda Super Hawk; bicycles lie on the back lawn, dogs mope around the fear porch. Raymond Moore and his wife bake some bread in the kitchen. Mrs. Moore, looking fresh, models tight blue jeans and a printed t-shirt. A girl short-cuts through the back yard filled with dogs, wearing a "Smoke Colombian" t-shirt...
OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS, people all over the country have been trying to sort out the issues and absorb the analyses in the controversial case of Regent of the University of California v. Allan Bakke. Many have debated with themselves about what personal stance to take, but have ended up more confused. Most people realize by now, for example, that the challenged U.C. Davis Medical School special admissions program goes beyond what is normally understood as affirmative action, but they question the charges that it amounts to a rigid quota system...