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...That?s a blow for people like Rev. Ian Paisley, the Protestant rabble-rouser who launched a bitter ?No? campaign against the accord just one day ago. It?s a boost for John Hume and David Trimble, leaders of the more mainstream nationalist and unionist parties, who always said their members were behind the basic principles of this peace. ?It is the best deal available -- warts and all,? Trimble told the BBC Wednesday. And who?s afraid of a few warts like the North-South committee and the decommissioning of weapons? Not the Irish...
...self-pity, but just because of exhaustion), I kept trying to remind her what an extraordinary success she had had as a wife, as a mother and as an actress. I hope that it registered and that in her darkest moments she may have remembered and even believed it. HUME CRONYN New York City...
...Wall Street Journal article on the 1980s influx of Vietnamese refugees, Ellen Hume hails the group's uncanny ability to climb the socioeconomic ladder. What explains their success? "The values they come with-- a dedication to family, education and thrift...
...Hume's claims of socioeconomic parity serve as a prime example. Her article effectively silences the hundreds of thousands of APAs below the poverty line. Nationally, 23 percent of Asian Americans, ages 25 and over, do not have a high school diploma. Compared to the highly-educated, the proportion unemployed of these disadvantaged APAs is over twice as high...
Ironically, many of these residents come from the refugee waves Hume lionizes. Clearly the policy ramifications are tremendous; if Asian Americans have "made it" in the public imagination, even if many work in sweatshops and live in dilapidated ethnic enclaves, we don't need to think about them. The quiet Asian fades into the shadows...