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Nevertheless, the beacon of hope for a better life in America burns brightest for those who endure the most profound debasement and despair in their native land. While the U.S. today is ill-equipped to take them all in, the dream lives on. For that reaca p16.227son, the immigration wave is not likely to stop or even slow. "People aren't going to write their relatives and say, 'Don't come,' " argues Bishop Fitzpatrick. Nor, despite the burden, is the U.S. likely to turn its back on its history by hanging out a sign that reads NO VACANCY...
...actors ranging from Paul Newman to Bette Midler, directors from Ron Howard to Martin Scorsese and musicians from Michael Jackson to Madonna. While CAA's chief rivals -- International Creative Management and William Morris -- may boast longer lists of stars, the 14-year-old CAA has snatched most of the brightest lights in the business. Says longtime agent Irving ("Swifty") Lazar, 81: "There hasn't been a phenomenon such as CAA since 1947, when Lew Wasserman and MCA dominated Hollywood. Comparing CAA to its strongest competition is like comparing Tiffany...
Best known for her role as River Phoenix's mistreated girlfriend in the 1986 comedy A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon, the Mower Hall resident has been called one of Hollywood's brightest and busiest new stars...
...issue arena are women. Beach pictorials are about the most exposure women get in any single issue of magazines such as Sports Illustrated. The imbalance suggests that women are most newsworthy when they are passive sex symbols. This is a warped idea in an age when the United States' brightest Olympic star was not a man, but sprinter Florence Griffith-Joyner...
With that, the Bastille exploded into the biggest uproar since a mob stormed the fortress prison to begin the French Revolution of 1789. Some of the brightest stars in the world of music noisily opened fire in support of Barenboim. Jessye Norman, the stately Georgia-born soprano, said she would "reconsider" whether to sing in the celebrations of the 200th anniversary of the Revolution. Patrice Chereau, who was to stage a new production of Mozart's Don Giovanni on opening night a year from now, said he considered his contract "annulled by this event." Conductor-composer Pierre Boulez resigned...