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Copley Place was built on top of the turnpike mess. The hole in the urban fabric has become a rose-and-beige-striped building complex, housing two hotels (36 and 38 stories high, with a total of nearly 2,000 rooms), four seven-story office buildings, shopping galleries with 100 restaurants and stores (including such glossy names as Neiman-Marcus, Tiffany, Gucci and Saint Laurent), a nine-screen movie house and parking for 1,432 cars...
...There are a lot of ethnic groups which would be forced out by gentrification," says David Kronberg, editor of the neighborhood's quarterly newspaper, Losing those ethnic groups would, Kronberg adds, "erode the neighborhood's fabric...
...sense, the political rumblings represent a mulish refusal to accept the changes in Western Europe's social fabric. Serious debate has been hindered by rhetoric about immigration, which is all but over, and large-scale repatriation, which is all but impossible. "We haven't come to terms with the fact that black people are really here to stay," says Lawyer Paul Boateng, 32, who was an unsuccessful Labor candidate in Britain's last general election. "We regard black people as immigrants who are transients, or potentially transients. White society wants to believe...
Finally, Mr. Louis blames the government, media, textbooks, and even professors (of all people for weaving a fabric of confusions and untruths. But this conspiracy theory rings as hollow as the cavernous emptiness of the rest of his assertions. For every National Review on the periodical shelves you can find a Village Voice (as Mr. Louis knows all too well), and for every Richard Pipes on a college faculty there are at least five John Womacks ranting and raving against supposed U.S. imperialism, oppression, and warmongering. It is precisely in countries such as the Soviet Union (and many Third World...
...Africa's postcolonial experience has been the continuation of tribal conflicts that have bedeviled the best-intentioned efforts at nation building. Kenya's Moi, a member of the minority Kalenjin tribe, calls modern Africa's tribal strife "the cancer that threatens to eat out the very fabric of our nation." From the beginning of the postcolonial period...