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...latest immigrants are following an arduous and traditional path into American society. Throughout the country's history, groups of newcomers have tended to cluster in certain jobs and then dominate their chosen fields by long and hard work. "This is a very common, recurrent phenomenon," says Harvard Sociologist Daniel Bell. German arrivals with names like Schlitz, Busch and Miller became beermakers in the mid-19th century, for example, while Italians grew fruits and vegetables and produced wine...
...their diversity, Hispanics share some common characteristics. Though many immigrate from rural areas, in the U.S. they have overwhelmingly become an urban population. As many as 90% live in cities or suburban towns. Seeking companionship, and in response to discrimination, they cluster together in communities where they can preserve their language, customs and tastes...
There is a common denominator to Ronald Reagan's current cluster of setbacks in domestic and foreign policy: his penchant for proposing simple solutions to complex problems has finally caught up with him. By no means is this feature of his difficulties bound to prove fatal to him politically; nor is it a function of his conservative ideology. Rather, it is the downside of his wizardry as a politician and as a leader...
Smoke spewed skyward from a cluster of Christian villages around the port of Sidon last week as Druze and Muslim forces, victors in a fresh outburst of fighting in Lebanon's ten-year-old civil war, put the torch to the plundered shops, homes and schools of Christians. Throughout the week, as militiamen from at least three different factions took over the region, residents of Beirut and Sidon drove into the villages to join in the looting. They loaded their cars and pickup trucks with furniture and clothing, raided vegetable gardens and stripped an entire banana plantation before returning home...
...indication of the institutional and hierarchical instincts of these editors comes in their calling themselves "the President and Fellows," a parroting of the University's power structure which one can only wish were satirical. From parroting to sycophancy, there is the spectacle of the Forum's "Advisory Board," a cluster of Harvard's brightest superstars, linked only by the instant recognizability of their names. Do only such prestigious tenured professors make fitting advisors? Or do their names look great on the masthead? (That eleven of the twelve advisers are men and all of them white is, to be honest, more...