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Mingus's jaunty, powerful bass lines on classics such as "Haitian Fight Song," "Better Get Hit In Your Soul" and "Ecclusiastics" are truly inspiring in their power and realization...
Chomsky said the administrations of the pastseveral decades have funded Haitian regimes whichhad "horrible" human rights records...
Take Bus 86 to step out into the neighborhood's sprinkling of ethnic stores: A Haitian Market called "Defilee;" an Italian bakery called "Roma's;" an Asian Market named "Reliable Market Inc.;"-- "the biggest Oriental store in New England," boasts store owner Jim Park. According to Park, most of the ethnic stores have sprung up recently, within the last five years. A customer agrees, calling it a "prosperous" and "growing" area...
...mistake. Off the shore of New York's Long Island, a rusty tramp steamer called the Golden Venture runs aground, disgorging nearly 300 frightened Chinese trying to enter the country illegally; 10 die. Newly elected President Bill Clinton, reneging on a campaign promise, denies entry to Haitian boat people, then is blindsided by hostile public reaction when his first two choices for Attorney General turn out to have hired illegal immigrants as household help. When Texas border patrols mount a round-the-clock blockade along 20 miles of the Rio Grande, hundreds of Mexicans, many of whom commute illegally...
...problems of ethnic diversity in their classrooms to educational advantage. Most elementary schools in Garden City celebrate different national holidays, including Mexican Independence Day, the Laotian New Year and Vietnam's Tet. Last year a class at New York City's P.S. 189, which is roughly one-third Haitian, performed a class project about Jean-Jacques Dessalines, the slave who freed Haiti from France. The exercise was consistent with both Haitian cultural traditions and the school's emphasis on maintaining harmony and diversity...