Word: mosaic
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Since Africa is a mosaic country with a fairly young population, it "relates to the rest of the world in a very specific way," said Wamba. "Very few countries [in Africa] have a population greater than New York City," he said...
Last November New Yorkers turned to Dinkins in the hope that the cautious and gentle veteran clubhouse politician would heal the rifts among them and offer a modicum of racial peace. "A Gorgeous Mosaic" became the 63-year-old grandfather's metaphor for his divided city, and he pulled together an ethnically diverse electorate to become New York's first black mayor by a narrow margin. Dinkins has named more minorities to top-level staff positions than any mayor before him and has drawn on a national pool of talent to fill posts in his administration. With little fanfare...
Back in the days when the economy was expanding, the cold war ending and the peace dividend looming large, Ronald Reagan cherished a famous fantasy about flying with Mikhail Gorbachev over the sun-soaked swatches of Southern California, with its mosaic of turquoise swimming pools and tidy lawns and fat white garages plump with new cars. "Those are the homes of American workers," he would proudly declare, describing a Hollywood dreamland where auto mechanics have summer houses and anyone can go to college...
...question now facing the city was what, if anything, could avert a plunge into deeper turmoil. Less than five months after he was sworn in as New York's first African-American mayor, Dinkins was confronting severe strains in the multiracial society he likes to call the "gorgeous mosaic." Yusuf Hawkins, Dinkins declared, had been killed by "racism in the first degree." Though "no verdict can take back the hate that was unleashed upon him or the pain that was inflicted upon all of us by the attack," said Dinkins, "it does allow us to begin to turn our attention...
...temptation to exploit such resentments can become irresistible to some unscrupulous leaders. When elected officials fail to provide effective leadership, says Moss, "the street merchants of hate move into the vacuum." Last week Dinkins mused about his role in repairing the cracks in New York's gorgeous mosaic. Said he: "No one ever knows if one has done enough." That realization could be the start of doing something more...