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NOWHERE has this been more evident than in the "have-not" countries like Jordan, Sudan, Algeria and Yemen, who brazenly contend that their efforts for "peace" were thwarted by the Western inperialists who are now conspiring with us, their corrupt Arab brothers, to demolish the saviour of their pride, their...
Before energy prices collapsed, the conventional wisdom held that America's economy was being split along have and have-not lines: a prosperous Sunbelt and a rusting Frostbelt. Now, however, there is talk about a different sort of "two Americas." In the new version, the haves are the high-tech industries and financial-service firms stretching from New Hampshire down the Eastern seaboard and from California's Silicon Valley down to Orange County; the have-nots include the farmers, energy producers and heavy manufacturers in between. The split that some see emerging counterposes booming coasts against a problem-plagued heartland...
Eventually the downtown scene burnt itself out in a blaze of success. Rampant gentrification has made SoHo's once funky lofts affordable only to the moneyed, and its former have-not inhabitants have also become chic. Anderson has forsaken the streets for major concert halls like the Brooklyn Academy, where...
But while the school continues to grow in many directions, the central obstacle to a rosy future remains the shortage of money. Rupp makes no bones about the school's rough times. "I think there's a case to be made that we are the poorest school at Harvard. I...
Now, however, a new bilingualism and biculturalism is being promulgated that would deliberately fragment the nation into separate, unassimilated groups. The movement seems to take much of its ideology from the black separatism of the 1960s but derives its political force from the unprecedented raw numbers-15 million or more...