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...churches. By the mid-1850s, an anti-immigrant political movement, the Know-Nothings (so-called because their organization was secret), seemed poised for national success. Abraham Lincoln disdained them: "How can any one who abhors the oppression of Negroes be in favor of degrading classes of white people?" The onset of the Civil War threw the Know-Nothings into the shade; the U.S. had enough homegrown trouble without worrying about immigrants...
...Take last week, for example. My onrushing dotage has, in recent years, been salved by sudden onset Mozart-mania. Obviously, I've always admired him - and well before Amadeus. But of late he's about all I want to listen to. I come home from a screening, weary and faboobled, pop a Mozart recording in the machine - you really must get Murray Perahia's boxed set of all the piano concertos and enter into bliss. I don't know a thing about music and don't understand my Mozartian passion, but the other night I decided to see as well...
...least eight lives since Sunday. Absent a power base of his own, Kawasmeh's prospects for integrating the fighting forces of the rival factions into the Palestinian Authority's security forces were always slim. But his resignation may nonetheless portend the collapse of the unity government, and the onset of a full-blown Palestinian civil...
...Meadows contends that it was only during the 1980s that the skinhead movement became infected by the Far Right, a collection of neo-fascist political parties, led by the infamous National Front, which called for the forced repatriation of immigrants. With the decline of British manufacturing and the onset of high unemployment, many working-class skins, whose communities bore the brunt of the new arrivals from abroad, became seduced by the promises of anti-immigrant politicians...
...United Nations, Dan Gillerman—the first Israeli to be appointed to the position from the private sector—presented an optimistic outlook for the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict in an animated talk at the Institute of Politics last night. Gillerman, establishing a lively atmosphere at the onset with his sense of humor and oratory ease, delved deep into the contentious issues of the conflict by outlining specific measures needed to be undertaken by both sides of the conflict. Gillerman said that these included the need for global recognition of the conflict and a clearer understanding...