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...much higher. To promote integration, the Netherlands in 1998 began requiring new immigrants to take mandatory Dutch lessons. As asylum seekers choose other destinations, their annual rate of entry to the Netherlands has dropped from 50,000 in the mid-1990s to about 33,000 last year. Nevertheless, says Entzinger, "the sheer numbers have changed things. Integration is working, but so slowly people can't see it, and they're uneasy - even some immigrants themselves...
...easy to construe straightforward differences about politics or academic policy in terms of so-called racial bias. At any great university, scholars are divided by their different opinions and views. Those differences of opinion very rarely occur because of differences in skin color or facial features. Nevertheless, some see race bias in nearly every conflict...
...Harvard. The many possible arguments against establishing ethnic studies departments, on both practical and ideological grounds, have been largely ignored in favor of racially-tinged emotional appeals and protests. A performance by the mock a cappella group “The Callblacks” even implied Summers was racist. Nevertheless, this dispute cannot realistically be seen as a racial or ethnic problem; the administration under Summers has steadfastly resisted any attempt to atomize academic study—queer studies being one oft-overlooked example. Reasonable people may debate the merits of ethnic and queer studies—although Summers...
...Nevertheless, the Crimson feels it has plenty to learn from the tournament...
...what was surely the best espionage novel of the '90s, Robert Harris imagined a brilliant mathematician, Tom Jericho (played in the movie adaptation by Dougray Scott), who is driven to a nervous breakdown by a failed love affair with the beauteous Claire (Saffron Burrows). Nevertheless, a shaky Tom must return to work against an urgent deadline: if the Bletchley crowd can't crack the code within a few days, a huge convoy will be wiped...