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It was quiet the night Fifteen Minutes came, which is probably typical. A lone woman pushed a stroller in the parking lot, while in the Peabody Terrace laundry room, Lee Branstetter loaded his clothes into the Maytag washers. Branstetter, a third year Economics Ph.D. candidate, likes living in Peabody Terrace...
Values, in fact, travel at the speed of fax; by now, almost half the world's Mormons live outside the U.S. A diversity of one culture quickly becomes a diversity of many: the "typical American" who goes to Japan today may be a third-generation Japanese American, or the son...
None of this, of course, is new: Chinese silks were all the rage in Rome centuries ago, and Alexandria before the time of Christ was a paradigm of the modern universal city. Not even American eclecticism is new: many a small town has long known Chinese restaurants, Indian doctors and...
Four hundred miles up the coast, at the University of California, Berkeley, "students of color" -- notably those of Asian and Hispanic descent -- have grown into a majority that demands to see its diversity reflected in textbooks and the faculty. After a debate admittedly more political than scholarly, the school now...
Proponents insist that the new thinking promotes only innocuous inclusion. University of Chicago literature professor Gerald Graff's Beyond the Culture Wars, a 1993 American Book Award winner, acknowledges that he favors "feminism, multiculturalism and other new theories and practices that have divided the academy" but insists that this can...