Word: americanizing
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...clearly the largest gift of its type," says William Gray III, president of the United Negro College Fund, which along with the Hispanic Scholarship Fund and the American Indian College Fund will help distribute the largesse...
MORE TEEN TRIALS A new study by the American Association of University Women Educational Foundation reveals that besides the obvious issues of school and grades, girls ages 11 to 17 struggle most often with such social concerns as knowing how to say yes to a relationship without having to say yes to sex, as well as dealing with peer pressure, drugs and alcohol. Such conflicting pressures come from not only boyfriends and girlfriends but also movies, television and advertising. According to the AAUW, educators and parents need to address this problem seriously...
...campaign book is a saccharine literary form--think of Jimmy Carter's Why Not the Best?--but Buchanan's new foreign policy monograph is every bit as vinegary as its author. It's also a stark reminder of just how far on the fringe of the American political spectrum he is. In A Republic, Not an Empire, Buchanan argues for an extreme isolationism that puts him at odds with everyone from Ronald Reagan conservatives to Edward Kennedy liberals. And along the way, he manages to deliver a flurry of jabs and body blows to his favorite punching bags: Jews, Hispanics...
WHAT'S THAT ON YOUR DRESS? When American designers strutted their stuff at the spring collections last week, some unusual motifs emerged. Diane Von Furstenberg showed a dress festooned with marijuana leaves. Miguel Adrover, a newcomer, splattered a frock with newspaper and paint, and Antilika tried to get at the essence of a woman through dresses decorated with a baby or a pregnant-looking belly. Maybe she should start a maternity line...
Along with isolationism, Buchanan dredges up another dark American political tradition: old-fashioned, immigrant-bashing nativism. While George W. Bush and other Republicans are courting the Hispanic vote, Buchanan warns that too many black- and brown-skinned people are entering the U.S. ("No nation has ever undergone so radical a demographic alteration and survived"). He lashes out at Jews as too influential (using the kind of rhetoric that led fellow Catholic conservative William Buckley to conclude, in a 1991 National Review article, that Buchanan was an anti-Semite). But he also argues that Greek-Americans, African-Americans and other "hyphenates...