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...that classmates at Wellesley compiled for their tenth reunion, she inveighed against prejudice toward women in American business. Said she: "It is the exceptions throughout history-in business, in medicine, in politics-that have made the breakthroughs and moved us forward-not by inches but by leaps." Yes, but fold your golden parachute carefully...
South Korean immigrants also tend to be middle class, or working slavishly to get there. Their numbers have gone up 16-fold since 1970, with virtually all of the newcomers settling in a 2-sq.-mi. swath along jumbled Olympic Boulevard. They seem eager to become full-fledged American bourgeois, holding golf tournaments and staging beauty contests. According to L.A. Demographer Eui-Young Eu of California State University, 40% of the area's documented Koreans own their homes. Most are fervent Protestants. Koreatown has some 400 churches. Ironically, younger Koreans are more likely to commit crimes than any other Asian...
According to an Arafat lieutenant, all but about 50 of the mutineers have returned to the Fatah fold. Of these 50, all but Abu Mousa and four other officers who have disobeyed direct orders will still be permitted to return to the ranks, supposedly with no questions asked. Abu Mousa and the four others are not likely to get off so easily...
...pieces because of the loss of a job or even a spouse. While surveying unemployed workers in the Detroit area, University of Michigan Researcher Louis Ferman found one hard-luck victim who had been successively laid off by the Studebaker Corp. in 1962 when it was about to fold, a truck manufacturer that went under in the 1970s, and more recently during cutbacks at a Chrysler plant. By all accounts, "he should have been a basket case," says Ferman, "yet he was one of the best-adjusted fellows I've run into." Asked his secret, the man replied...
...about the viability of the Sandinista regime, counterrevolution is not necessary--yet. Overthrowing the Sandinistas must be seen as a policy of last resort, to be contemplated only after all other means of change have been attempted. For despite the authoritarian nature of the regime, it is a ten-fold improvement over Somoza and Co.: great strides have been made in education and literacy and torture is no longer a fact of life...