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...their heritage. "Kinship ties" and generational memory may go a long way toward explaining how blacks fell together during the early Civil Rights Movements. And "fictive" kin adoption may shed light on why black children in the North still grow up knowing any number of "uncles" and "aunties" who belong to the outer reaches of their kinship network or are not among their blood relatives at all. To forge these links slaves may have been obliged to lay low for a century--the Gutman report obviously places family concern above class militancy--but the life that slaves made...
...school in Georgia, Lance keeps a Bible in his office, as does Carter. Lance had to drop out of the University of Georgia in his senior year and never did get a college degree. He admits to not being steeped in the intricacies of macroeconomics or international finance. "I belong to the 'people school' of economics," he told TIME. Right after the election he also said, "It's awfully important that [Carter] show people early on that he can deal with the economy in a positive manner. The confidence factor is the biggest thing...
Parties in Pennypacker suffer less from the Budweiser-jock syndrome this year, and the only spare tires in sight belong to a few of the proctors. In fact, life in general at "the Pack" is now, by all accounts, something people are happy to talk about--a far cry from the days when residents regularly bemoaned being stranded in "the slums of Harvard," flushed away in "the cesspool of the University." In the first year since crowding forced the University to break with the past and house women in the Union Dorms, Pennypacker has pulled a startling about face, becoming...
...Israel by forces opposed to the very existence of the state. Their contention at the time that Israeli archeological excavations in East Jerusalem were being carried out without regard to the safety of Moslem holy sites was fraudulent. The argument made by one UNESCO delegate that Israel should not belong to any regional group because, "It is a state that came from nowhere and belongs nowhere," was in fact a far more honest statement of intent by those who sponsored the expulsion resolution...
...many mass parties -at least six-as the size of the crowd requires. Carter intends to stop in at each one. The capital's museums and tourist attractions are being asked to stay open late to accommodate visitors. Says Tirana: "We want everybody, regardless of what party they belong to, to feel they are welcome in Washington...