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...Tony Blair and Labor were crowing Friday about "devolution": This referendum was another way to move government out of London. Yet the Scottish Nationalist Party was jubilant too, billing the vote as a major step towards independence. It has already been a remarkable compromise...
...more grounded and accessible work is Jonathan Coleman's Long Way to Go: Black & White in America (Atlantic Monthly Press; $26.50), which focuses on ordinary blacks and whites in the "hypersegregated" city of Milwaukee. The narrative begins in 1991 with Milwaukeeans living under a black nationalist's threat of "all-out guerrilla warfare" in the city within five years. Throughout the book, Coleman finds white and black nerves fraying: a prosperous black Republican publisher relates the story of a racist slight at an awards banquet and tells Coleman, "You can achieve all you want to achieve in life...
...some places the authoritarian or nationalist governments that replaced the communists were just as unenthusiastic as their predecessors about Soros' continued push for open debate. Says his friend Byron Wien, head U.S. strategist at Morgan Stanley: "He was definitely not viewed as the Albert Schweitzer of our time, but as someone with an angle. He was not prepared for the hostility...
...warned that the unbridled market is a greater threat to "Open Societies" than totalitarian ideologies. The press torched him. Forbes, which castigated him for dealing with ex-communists, called his thesis "nonsense." Says Soros: "You had a capitalist fool [Steve Forbes, the magazine's owner] combining with the nationalist right--a stupid combination...
Organista's experience helps explain why the NAFTA generation is much more poised to break with entrenched economic and cultural traditions. Young people want realism instead of nationalist ideology in their movies and music, and surveys show they prize honesty, competence and practicality over old-fashioned lockstep thinking and knee-jerk anti-Americanism. With AIDS the third leading killer of Mexicans under age 35, they are demanding a more candid discussion in the traditionally prim media of issues like sexuality. The demands have helped spawn a renaissance in Mexican television, cinema and journalism...