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The welcome was much warmer at Angel Island's East Coast counterpart, the fabled Ellis Island, where European immigrants were processed within hours. "Whenever people talk about American immigration, they talk about Ellis Island," says exhibit designer Daniel Quan, whose own father passed through Angel Island in 1926. "The country...
Which isn't to say that the Cuban revolution doesn't deserve its due. It overthrew one of Latin America's most putrid dictators, championed the poor (still a rare thing to do in Latin America) and showed the U.S. that its worst Monroe Doctrine impulses (not to mention the...
Those headquarters, which will be completed next year, will most likely carry the Wells Fargo tag. Local officials say that with current uptown vacancy rates of just 1.1%, according to the real estate services provider CB Richard Ellis - by far the best in the nation - even if the building's...
To woo kids back, the American Embassy in London is promoting the country's diversity and popular culture as reasons to understand it better. Encouraging people to study the country "furthers our mission to explain America to the world," says Liza Davis, the Embassy's cultural attaché. The embassy...
With The Partnership, Ellis has fashioned a taut and anecdote-rich narrative stretched over a sturdy frame of historical context. A longtime consultant to Goldman, he sometimes lets the book lapse into press-releasey hagiography. But for a job well done, Ellis deserves to take a victory lap around Wall...