Word: continental
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Historian George Stewart once amused himself by imagining the course of U.S. history if America had been discovered not on its Atlantic side by Christopher Columbus but on its Pacific side by a 15th century Chinese explorer named Ko Lum Bo. As hardy immigrants from the Orient began to establish...
Americans alternate between hospitality and paranoia about the newcomers, between a promiscuous inclusiveness and a nativist recoil. It was different, they say, when the whole continent lay before us and needed building. The job is done. How many more can we take now? How long before all those foreigners, who...
"We are not a nation," Herman Melville said of this country of immigrants, "so much as a world." That judgment is ringingly appropriate to an art industry that since its inception has dominated the world market and consciousness. A wistful tramp wreaks havoc in a Manhattan pawnshop, and Asians fall...
American intelligence experts have no doubt what will be the prime target: the U.S. "The next attack will be here, on the American continent, and aimed to hit the heart of our system," predicts one high-ranking intelligence official. Some experts fear that a retaliatory strike against terrorists abroad could...
Hardly anyone expects Papandreou to do that. But if the Harvard-educated economist and former Berkeley professor has a proven track record for anything in politics, it is for mercurial gestures. A onetime U.S. citizen who reverted to Greek citizenship in 1964, he seems to have thrived during his first...