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...entire family cannot do a U-turn in the middle of a mass migration. Satbir is enrolling in a computer course that will come in handy when she helps at the store her parents run in Hayward. Her father, back in India on a visit, testifies that America is a rich country, with many "gadgets" to make life more comfortable. "I would hate to look and behave like an American," says Satbir, even among Americans. Perhaps sometimes she will wear slacks or a skirt, instead of the traditional salwar kameez tunic. Beyond that, she knows little, but expects the best...
...sister had been in Hayward, California, since 1981, married to an engineer. After the troubles began, they sponsored her mother's trip, then that of her father Jagdish, whose strategy was to emigrate and bring in five of his children behind him. He hired a caretaker for the family's 35-acre farm in their village of Panam. Then he bought an apartment in Chandigarh for the sole purpose of housing his son and four daughters as they wait for their visas...
...when she was 40, she married a vibrant, glamorous American, Leland Hayward, a mega-agent and producer whose credits included South Pacific and Gypsy and who represented the likes of Fred Astaire, Clark Gable and Judy Garland. A few months after he died in 1971, she was invited to a dinner by Washington Post owner Katharine Graham and renewed her friendship with Harriman. They were married shortly after. He was 29 years her senior. Her wedding present to him was initiating the process of becoming a U.S. citizen...
...immigrants, a rise in the number of kids with learning and behavioral problems, more latchkey children whose parents are working and hungry kids whose parents are not. "Schools are expected to provide more social services, more counseling, more psychological and nursing services," says Dan Moirao, superintendent of the Hayward Unified School District. "But because of low funding, we have difficulty just providing the basic teacher in front of the classroom with a textbook...
Simple numbers, hard consequences -- how does a school decide what stays, what goes? In the past two years, the Hayward district canceled a program that provided 34 specially trained teachers to help students who have reading problems. But it held on to six counselors, in part because of an outcry from parents who feared their children would not have guidance to make judgments about college and careers. Even six seemed too few to students puzzling over their prospects. "We have a million decisions to make, and there's no one here to talk to," complains Jared Mariconi, a senior. Mary...