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...American Melting Pot has fallen on hard times. It was first rejected in the late 1960s by Marxists and relativists from the Left who claimed the idea of an American culture was some ethnocentric construct designed to preserve the power of the white majority and annihilate the heritage and values of non-white groups...
...concluded to a standing ovation from students and faculty . While individuals should certainly applaud out of courtesy, they should not lower their standards simply because the speaker is a celebrity. The acclaim that Ms. Streisand received for her speech at Harvard is a major indication that this University has fallen under the same spell that has long captivated America...
...Crimson fell behind early in the second period, but the team retaliated 15 seconds later. Karmanos rifled a shot high on Veisor, and senior Cory Gustafson grabbed the rebound and roofed the puck over the fallen goalie at the 2:03 mark...
Fujimori is up for re-election in April. The man who took power in a 1992 self-coup had won broad support for his suppression of Maoist guerrillas and his efforts to jump-start the economy, but lately his approval rating has fallen from 90% to under 70%, largely due to the country's continuing widespread poverty. Fujimori has also suffered some personal embarrassments: his estranged wife Susana Higuchi embarked on a brief hunger strike last January, protesting her disqualification as a congressional candidate. Fujimori's Vice Minister of the Interior was rumored to have connections to drug traffickers after...
...former President, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, and our new President, Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon, owe every kind of satisfaction to our country. It is their national duty to face the people and make clear to Mexicans and the nations of the world why and how our country has fallen into crisis...