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Among the younger populations that go to school and provide new entrants to the work force, the change will happen sooner. In some places an America beyond the melting pot has already arrived. In New York State some 40% of elementary- and secondary-school children belong to an ethnic minority. Within a decade, the proportion is expected to approach 50%. In California white pupils are already a minority. Hispanics (who, regardless of their complexion, generally distinguish themselves from both blacks and whites) account for 31.4% of public school enrollment, blacks add 8.9%, and Asians and others amount...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beyond The Melting Pot | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

...courtroom, even "slight innuendos made me feel illegitimate--like I didn't belong there," said Gertner...

Author: By Alexandra E. Tibbetts, | Title: Panel Discusses Gender, Courts | 4/4/1990 | See Source »

...sovereign nation, they need not take orders from Moscow. "Psychological warfare is being waged against Lithuania," said Landsbergis in a speech to the local parliament. "I have no doubt that we will bear this pressure. It is a question of who has sovereignty over this land. Does it belong to the people of Lithuania or to some other state?" As for the decree ordering the surrender of firearms, Landsbergis replied, "It can be enforced only through brutal, armed force . . . The ghost of Stalinism is walking in the Kremlin, and the shadow of it lies far to the west" -- over Lithuania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union War of Nerves | 4/2/1990 | See Source »

EVERYONE hates theater critics--those nasty bastards--but college theater critics belong in a special pantheon of cretins. It's easy to see why. Look at those pictures: people dancing, laughing, horsing around, working hard, waiting nervously in the wings, taking curtain calls. As the company of Damn Yankees demonstrates, putting a show together can be a warm, fun, exhausting experience, a time to form new and intimate relationships, a time when individuals merge into a team and develop together. (Sounds like an ad for Summer of '42.) The conflicts and squabbles of rehearsal can teach you more about yourself...

Author: By David M. Edelstein -, | Title: An Explanation of the Role of Student Reviewers on Campus | 3/23/1990 | See Source »

...problem is trying to identify ones that belong to you as opposed to someone else," Dowler said...

Author: By Joshua A. Gerstein, | Title: FBI Finds 10,000 Rare Books | 3/23/1990 | See Source »

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