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...while Sacramento approaches an ideal for integration, it certainly isn't paradise. Beneath the multicolored surface, the city's 407,018 inhabitants vacillate between racial harmony and ethnic tension. You see a Sikh casually strolling into a Mexican restaurant for takeout, an Eskimo and a white punk hanging out together downtown. But you also see black and Hispanic parents outraged because their kids' test scores lag behind those of whites and Asians in integrated schools. And you hear Anne Gayles-White, the N.A.A.C.P. chapter president, saying "There's still too much hatred and racism in a city like this...
...hour in American life." It's an indictment that still carries weight today, as an estimated 90% of Americans worship primarily with members of their race or ethnicity. Yet Sacramento's complex social tapestry challenges conventional notions that racial segregation in worship is a failure of America's national ideal of equality. Sometimes segregation is driven not by bigotry but by language barriers and cultural heritage...
...similar event planned for last summer at the seaside town of Beidaihe was canceled, to the surprise of few. Beidaihe is where top Communist Party leaders hold their annual summer retreat, and that first abortive Woodstock was scheduled to begin just after those meetings concluded. Timing wasn't ideal for the Snow Mountain festival either. The 16th Party Congress, at which the communists are expected to name a new team of leaders, is set to take place this fall, and the run-up is a peak period of political sensitivity across China...
...fall of 1944, facing defeat and short of resources, the imperial army began to send off pilots in planes with enough fuel only for a one-way trip. Chiran's location in a hidden valley close to Okinawa made it an ideal launchpad for the so-called Tokkotai, or Special Attack Corps. Tome ran the Tomiya eatery in Chiran. The pilots, many still teenagers, spent their last days hanging around her place. She cooked their favorite meals, smuggled their farewell letters to sweethearts past military censors, and gave the airmen their final hugs goodbye. Tome, then a middle-aged mother...
...last summer at the seaside town of Beidaihe was canceled, to the surprise of few. Beidaihe, after all, is the setting for the Communist Party Elite's annual summer retreat, and that first abortive "Woodstock" was scheduled to begin just after those meetings concluded. Timing hasn't been ideal for the Snow Mountain festival either. The 16th Party Congress, at which the party is expected to usher in a new leadership lineup, is set to take place this fall, and the run-up is a peak period of political sensitivity across China...