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...Felix Dzerzhinsky School in Erkner, a suburb of East Berlin, is named after a Russian of Polish descent who founded the dreaded Cheka, the forerunner of the Soviet KGB, in 1917. Two months ago, half a year after the Berlin Wall fell, the teachers asked the town council to drop the name. They are still awaiting action, but they are patient and confident -- with some reservations. "It would not be proper to ignore our entire history," says Barbel Dudelitz, an English-language teacher who has yet to take down portraits of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in her classroom...
When the presidential campaign started nine months ago, few people in Lima had ever heard of him. Yet as the votes were counted last week after the first round of balloting, Alberto Fujimori, 51, an agronomist of Japanese descent, was less than 3% behind Mario Vargas Llosa, 54, one of Latin America's most popular novelists and among Peru's most famous citizens. Because he is likely to win support from other opposition parties, Fujimori is expected to prevail in a runoff to be held in late May or early June...
...sound and phrasing of a passage that he wants to hear at a string rehearsal later today. With his right hand, its long thin fingers oddly flat at the tips and turned up like little spatulas, he plays the simple passage at heartbeat tempo. After a brief descent, the notes reverse direction, then fall, then rise slightly, then fall again and then, sighing, rise and fall into silence...
...that used to be virtually all black, social workers today need to speak Spanish. At the Sesame Hut restaurant in Houston, a Korean immigrant owner trains Hispanic immigrant workers to prepare Chinese-style food for a largely black clientele. The Detroit area has 200,000 people of Middle Eastern descent; some 1,500 small grocery and convenience stores in the vicinity are owned by a whole subculture of Chaldean Christians with roots in Iraq. "Once America was a microcosm of European nationalities," says Molefi Asante, chairman of the department of African-American studies at Temple University in Philadelphia. "Today America...
...east of Los Angeles is Monterey Park, a city of 60,000 people, approximately half of whom are of Chinese descent. The rest of the population is 32% white and 16% Hispanic. After a Chinese-American developer placed an ad in Hong Kong and Taiwan newspapers, an explosion of real estate sales occurred in Monterey Park. Dozens of shopping centers sprouted to cater to new Chinese residents...