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Today, among the Portuguese the impulse to assimilate is giving way to an increased emphasis on ethnic heritage. Among the newer Portuguese immigrants, pride in national origin and customs is replacing the impulse to Americanize...
Cornell University's Faculty Council of Representatives will investigate Cornell's undergraduate swimming requirement to determine its origin and legality as a requirement for graduation, the Cornell Daily Sun reported this week...
Third of all, to remove any implications, Mrs. Mao's involvement with the idea of an investigation is negligible. The idea was entirely my own, supported by the Executive Committee. Thus Mrs. Mao had no part whatsoever in its origin...
Though they share the same religion, the two countries could hardly be more different. Iraq is an Arab state, governed by the left-wing Baathist regime and aligned with Moscow. Iran is a conservative, Western-oriented monarchy whose people are of predominantly Aryan origin. The Iraqis are armed by the Soviets; the Iranians bought some $2 billion worth of U.S. arms last year...
Much of The Other Bostonians is devoted to discovering why social mobility is greater among some groups than among others. Although children of white-collar parents are much more likely to be upwardly mobile than are those from blue-collar families, social origin alone was insufficient to explain the social mobility apparent in Thernstrom's statistics...