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...like to destroy three myths about education and learning that Harvard puts into the minds of its students. If you know that these supposed truths are merely myths, you may still have a fighting chance when the liberals lift you up and put you on the conveyor belt that leads into their factory. You may still emerge from Harvard with your conscience intact...
...warn against a backlash against the country's Asian communities. Last night, New South Wales state legislator John Newman, 47, was gunned down in front of his suburban Sydney home. Newman, who had received death threats while campaigning for years against Asian gang violence, recently asked police to lift surveillance on his home. Newman was shot twice in the chest and died on the steps of his house as his Chinese-born fiancee looked...
...disaffected keep coming in numbers sufficient to overflow Guantanamo, Clinton will have to look again at the options he has tried mightily to dodge. His major goal so far has been to avoid, at almost all costs, a replay of the Mariel boat lift. That 1980 exodus dumped 125,000 refugees in five months into Florida and from there to other Southern states unready to receive them. The fiasco badly hurt not only President Carter but also Bill Clinton, who believes he was defeated for re-election as Governor of Arkansas in part because Cuban refugees sent to Fort Chaffee...
Clinton enjoyed a certain amount of maneuvering room: there is no significant sentiment in Congress to open up immigration or lift the trade embargo on Cuba. "The solution is not for 100,000 Cubans to come to the U.S.," says New Jersey Democrat Robert Menendez, "but for one man to leave Cuba, and that is Fidel Castro." While some angry Cuban Americans took to the streets of Miami shouting, "Down with Clinton!" exile leaders like Jorge Mas Canosa, chairman of the powerful Cuban American National Foundation, lobbied the White House to keep up the pressure. The truth is that even...
...largest Cuban migration since the 1980 Mariel boat lift. With hundreds of refugees arriving in Florida daily, Governor Lawton Chiles called the situation critical and declared a state of emergency. The White House, no longer insisting that the refugee flow was "manageable," abruptly reversed a 28-year-old policy of admitting virtually all Cubans seeking to enter the U.S. and announced that all Cuban refugees will now be detained and processed like other illegal aliens...