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...discover just how much of our ability to get along with one another has depended on that spiritual sense of American manifest destiny -- and, more practically, on a steady rise in the average person's prosperity. For almost two decades now this rise, which Americans take as their birthright, has stalled or at least slowed dramatically. David Duke is a political expression of that reality...
...West Bank. Inaugurating a new settlement last week, he vowed that "all our territories that can be built on will be populated by Jews to the end of the horizon." But at least Shamir is motivated by a sense of what he believes to be the historical birthright of his people...
...people so certain of their birthright be disoriented? More to the point, how can the French feel lost when France has emerged as the master builder of modern Europe? Not since the mid-19th century, when Baron Haussmann thrust his boulevards through rancid slums, has Paris experienced such a fever of construction and renewal. With a Metro that works, streets kept remarkably clean by 5,000 green-uniformed sweepers, parks planted like Impressionist paintings and bakeries galore, Paris may well represent the apogee of civilized city living -- for those who can afford the rent. Yet not since Parisians finally ousted...
Many Hispanics and blacks do poorly on certain tests, and this provides plausibly objective support for such ideas. Yet even before ability tests existed, society assumed that whites were an intellectually and morally superior race. Such a presumption is, in effect, a white American's birthright. Minorities face a society convinced that they are less fit, unless proved otherwise. As a result, even for the most talented nonwhites, the standard for advancement and access is different from that for whites -- so- called quota programs notwithstanding. If management is predisposed to doubt the qualifications of minority applicants, ways will be found...
Leadership has been the Gandhi family's birthright. In a land accustomed to rajas, maharajas, kings and emperors, a republican ruling family was consistent with India's long history. It lent legitimacy to the government of a country that until independence in 1947 had been as much a state of mind as a nation-state...