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...railroad people, from corporate towers to the yards, seem to have sniffed the new promise. Deloyt Young, manager of the world's largest freight yard, U.P.'s Bailey Yard in North Platte, Nebraska, knows every inch of his eight-mile domain, a moving mosaic of thousands of cars and engines. It is hard by the old ranch where Buffalo Bill Cody assembled his Wild West show (complete with conquered Sioux Chief Sitting Bull) and sent it out on tour aboard U.P. trains. "I don't need an economist to tell me when things are good or bad," Young says...
Despite his missile attack, Bill Clinton is no match for George Bush in Iraqi demonology. A new mosaic showing Bush's grimacing face was recently laid at the entrance to Baghdad's al-Rasheed Hotel so that visitors cannot help stepping on the former President's face. BUSH IS CRIMINAL, it says in English and Arabic. Although they show no hostility toward visiting Americans, Iraqis are angry that they -- not the government foisted upon them -- are the ones who always suffer. At the Lawyers' Union in Baghdad's fashionable Mansour district, a white-haired attorney captures Iraqis' twin resentments...
Entering the lobby of the Business School's newly renovated Morgan Hall, where the dean has his spacious office, visitors are greeted by a rare 2,000-year-old tile floor mosaic imported from ancient Syria...
America thinks of itself as a diverse society -- a "gorgeous mosaic," in the words of New York City Mayor David Dinkins; a quilt of many ethnic and racial patches, in a favorite metaphor of the Rev. Jesse Jackson's. But the figures of the 1990 census, only now crunched, suggest that the demographic surface of life in the U.S. is a lot smoother than one thinks. So is the cultural surface, unless the politicians ruffle...
This is a pretty simple mosaic, at least as far as its biggest pieces are concerned, and the consequences for cultural integrity and social peace have not been complex. The largest ethnic group -- nearly one-quarter of the U.S. population -- turns out to be one of the least visible, a template of assimilation. "I have often thought that the Germans make the best Americans," wrote the critic Karl Shapiro, "though they certainly make the worst Germans." German Americans assimilated partly because of two world wars with the old country, but also because the Germans who came here -- Catholics and Protestants...