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...been on the rise since the mid-' 80s, says Eberhard Seidel-Pielen, an expert on the right-wing scene, and "since the economic problems of unification have become dominant, foreigners are used even more as scapegoats." The political crusade to change liberal asylum laws, he contends, "has fed the latent aggression against foreigners of millions of citizens...
...black neighborhood that is combatting crime as well as recession. That pilgrimage perhaps took the sting off the two nights he spent at glittery parties in posher Georgetown. Clinton's trip to Capitol Hill on Thursday was what an aide to the Governor described as a "love shack." Latent intraparty disagreements over taxes, deficits, auto-fuel standards and a line-item veto were quietly shelved; starved for a leader after 12 years, the Democrats are all singing the same music. For now, anyway, happy days are here again. (See related story on page...
...Gandhi and Martin Luther King. Ninety-four percent of the American people believe in God; 41% go to church on any given Sunday. But you'd never know it by watching American TV. We seldom see TV characters reach for God or fight with Him, despite the theatricality latent in their doing so. Why is that? I find television too much concerned with what people have and too little concerned with who they are, very concerned with taking care of No. 1 and not at all concerned with sharing themselves with other people. All too often it tells...
Scholars of religion claim that all of us have some kind of religion, even if it's purely negative (atheism) or latent. Mine was pretty latent. Sure, I believed in God, but it was just like biting my nails: a childhood habit I never really tried to break. As far as I was concerned, all I needed was chutzpah and high SAT scores for my life to be perfectly under control. But that was before I faced the Great Harvard Humbling Experience...
...struggles to take shape, there is something both stirring and a trifle chilling about the Perot campaign. The hopeful sincerity of his newfound supporters is a reminder of the latent idealism in the American character. But there is also a whiff of danger in the ease with which this billionaire with a mission has harnessed television imagery, telephone technology and voter disaffection to create a volatile force in the 1992 campaign...