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...Gehry building had not caused the American Center enough financial trouble, it has also created an aesthetic controversy -- but not the one anybody would have expected. Parisians think the building is too ... Parisian. Critics have complained that it is not bold and Californian enough. Gehry "has abandoned a bit of his wild, spontaneous quality in order to cater to a Parisian norm," charges Francois Chaslin, editor of the influential monthly Architecture d'Aujourd'hui. "The result is more ordinary, less powerful than his other buildings...
...Chronicle of Higher Ed reported this week that Stephen Krasner called white Christians "underrepresented" and Jews and Asians "overrepresented" on the Northern Californian campus...
Communication was more of a problem. Some long distance lines to Los Angeles were inoperative until Monday evening, causing students to worry about their Southern Californian families and friends. Some homes may still be without phone service...
...process of assimilation, while perhaps a bit more hesitant and stressful than at times in the past, still marches on. It might skip a generation, revealing itself eventually, for instance, in the pure Valleyspeak ; of a young Chinese Californian. More often than ever before, though, assimilation in the 1990s arrives through the ultimate cultural immersion of interethnic marriage. In today's diverse America, such marriages are occurring at triple the rate of two decades...
...Northern Californian some days, indignant at the Southern Californian's water-sucking strategies. On those days I become my father, my grandmother, and might even count the number of Jewish names in an airplane crash...