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Less than a decade ago, many blacks regarded the Nation of Islam as little more than bow-tied black nationalists, peddling bean pies and hawking newspapers on street corners from Harlem to Watts. While they commanded respect for their neat appearance and abstinence from cigarettes, alcohol and drugs, the Muslims' rigid religious strictures and separatist political views kept them on the fringes of mainstream black America...
Many have found success and prosperity in their new home. A decade ago, a 1 1/2-mile strip of Bolsa Avenue between Garden Grove and Westminster in Orange County, Calif., was a ragged quilt of vacant lots and small stores, bean fields and discount emporiums. Today the stretch is as alive as payday in a port city -- specifically, Saigon. Between 20,000 and 50,000 Vietnamese flock each weekend to 800 shops and restaurants, buying herbal medicine and dining out on snail-tomato-rice-noodle soup. In the mornings people may attend Buddhist ceremonies in makeshift temples; in the evenings they...
...string bean, either," another friend of mine said meaningfully. Then they both laughed at that, and one of us cried, "Harsh." Unduly so, because, in a way, that was the cruelest kind of dismissal...
Meanwhile, somewhere up in Vermont, the L.L. Bean wool sweater shift packed up their looms for the winter...
...bureaucracy. Many RTC offices have only just opened and are operating far below capacity. About 2,300 staffers have been hired and trained so far, but the agency will need thousands more, and finding talented employees has been difficult. "They do a lot of clock watching and bean counting," says a Houston real estate agent. "Everybody's so afraid of making a mistake that you can't get an answer. It's a mess...