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...strongest films: America, chatting as it flailed away, ignorant of its imminent demise. It was subject he painted on a vast, teeming canvas - Brueghel reimagined by Jackson Pollock - where folks elbow and fast-talk their way toward your attention. His fugue format, pouring dozens of plots into a post-ethnic melting pot, gave everyone a brief grab at movie immortality. On the great plains of Altman's precious wide screen, America bustled, hustled and tussled. His searching telephoto lens, focusing on this micro-event or that, suggested the eye of a man who is always interested, was rarely impressed...
...competition to stay afloat hasn't improved ethnic tensions, either. For all the vibrant, cross-hemispheric diversity in Miami, its Latino, black and white enclaves remain segregated and mistrustful of one another. The Cuban exiles' dominion over much of Miami politics (remember the Elin Gonzlez uprising?) has bred resentment in some quarters. This showed in the outcry earlier this year when the Miami-Dade school board, whose system has a dismal 45% graduation rate, announced that it would spend tens of thousands of dollars in court to ban a kindergarten book about Cuba that it says...
...community in general, to the dismay of many leaders within it, has historically been slow to anger and reluctant to speak out against perceived injustices. The Boxer Rebellion affair is symptomatic of a greater issue: when dealing with racism that takes more subtle forms than threats of violence or ethnic slurs, as Ho puts it, “You find yourself in this gray area, where the question is, is this a big enough deal for me to make a ruckus about it? When the minority group in question can’t agree if they’re being...
...that it’s educating future leaders, it needs to actively recruit Latinos, or Harvard itself is going to become marginalized,” Fitzsimmons said. Latinos comprise 9.8 percent of the Class of 2010, a record number. Fitzsimmons cited the “resegregation of America by ethnic background and socio-economic background” as a major obstacle to Harvard’s efforts to diversify. “We’re worried that there are kids out there who would be great at Harvard who are not going to make it out of high school...
...hopes that in time the path will become a potent—if unconventional—tool in the quest for religious and political conciliation.THE PROJECTCo-founder of Harvard’s Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, Ury has mediated situations ranging from corporate mergers to ethnic war in the former Yugoslavia. In 1982, he founded the organization now known as the GNP, with the intention of lessening the possibility of nuclear war between the USSR and America.With the close of the Cold War, Ury turned the GNP’s attention toward the Middle East, an area...