Word: digesting
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...urge that everybody "assimilate" into this stifling melting pot. Assimilation is a frightening action call for me to digest the ways of someone else and becoming part of an "inherited culture" that does not belong...
...last ten years, we have sort of semi-moved. Right now, I am sitting pretty because I won a rather wonderful award, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writer's Award. They give $10,000 a year to get involved in some community activity which you feel passionately about. And what I do feel very passionately about are the problems in our part of the world and the antagonism between the subcontinental countries. My proposal is to set up a forums for subcontinental understanding through dialogue. I am planning to have about four writers a year, broad-minded people from...
...everything easy. That's how a free economy works." Manek changes his name to Mike and even asks his wife to use his new name in public. The reader understands Manek as the wonderstruck prototypical immigrant, eyes aglow in the land of plenty. This characterization becomes particularly difficult to digest when taking into account that Manek and Feroza, as well as Sidhwa, belong to the notoriously wealthy, sophisticated and Westernized Parsi community in Pakistan...
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...eager to be seen as following Arafat's lead, and he believes the P.L.O.'s settling for a staged autonomy threatens his own ambition for a one-step return of the Golan Heights to Syrian control. Washington will have to stroke Assad, knowing that Israel needs time to digest the latest events before ceding territory to Syria, no matter the peace that would be its price. In Clinton's favor is the fact that Assad can no longer count on Moscow to support his pan-Arab dream and Syria's need for Western assistance...