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...acceptable for the whole family to come along to Las Vegas, that's because the values of America have changed, not those of Las Vegas. Deviancy really has been defined down. The new hang-loose all-American embrace of Las Vegas is either a sign that Americans have liberated themselves from troublesome old repressions and moralist hypocrisies, or else one more symptom of the decline of Western civilization. Or maybe both...
...Kingston, Mass., native didn't matriculate at Harvard, but rather at Springfield College, where he was named an All-American linebacker...
...BACKGROUND: Born in Kingston, Mass., an All-American linebacker at Springfield College, graduating...
...What were once clear divisions are now tangles of crossed lines: there are 40,000 "Canadians" resident in Hong Kong, many of whose first language is Cantonese. And with people come customs: while new immigrants from Taiwan and Vietnam and India -- some of the so-called Asian Calvinists -- import all-American values of hard work and family closeness and entrepreneurial energy to America, America is sending its values of upward mobility and individualism and melting-pot hopefulness to Taipei and Saigon and Bombay...
...coming together like dynamite," Dooley said. "The tournament in Minnesota [the All-American Intercollegiate Women's Ice Hockey Tournament] was so valuable that it put our team chemistry one month ahead. We're playing with eight freshman. They're learning every day, but it's on-the-job training. They'll get better and better and learn from their mistakes...