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After an original album like From the Wood, Save Me risks sounding overly-produced. Maybe mainstream pop is the sound he’s going for. He is easily as talented as John Mayer, but has received probably less than one-tenth the recognition. But after hearing the album’s first track, I wanted someone to save me from listening to the record label’s popified Pat McGee, no longer the soulful songwriter from Virginia with a knack for writing a love song. Thankfully, the album gets better as McGee’s original sound comes...
Scott says that American Indians tend to have “different value systems” than most Harvard students. Many Indian students, she says, have a hard time reconciling their community-focused outlook with mainstream Harvard culture...
...Graham Fuller, who says of the Mexican-dominated regions of the American Southwest, “We may be building toward the one thing that will choke the melting pot, an ethnic area and grouping so concentrated that it will not wish, or need, to undergo assimilation into the mainstream of American multi-ethnic English-speaking life...
Moreover, as historian Michael Barone trenchantly observes, “The American elite of a century ago … championed the cause of Americanization and promoted assimilation of immigrants into the mainstream.” The same cannot be said of most American cultural elites in 2004. One need look no further than their unrepentant support for bilingual education. It is now clear to all but the fiercest ideologues that bilingual education has hindered Latinos’ upward mobility. But those who dare question its effect on immigrant families are continually smeared as racists...
...watch out. The essential Bush foreign, fiscal and social policies represent nothing less than a new political philosophy: Utopian conservatism, a messianic faith in the power of democracy to transform the Middle East and the power of tax cuts to produce prosperity. This is a radical departure from the mainstream traditions of American diplomacy and fiscal responsibility and should be grounds for a serious debate. But the Administration reacts to almost every challenge--from the Niger uranium flap to Clarke's testimony--as if it were a mortal threat, demonizing its opponents, stonewalling, raising the stakes. After a perfunctory first...