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Furthest on the fringe is Pamyat, a rabidly nationalist, anti-Semitic group espousing a return to the czarist monarchy and unabashedly proud of its fascist symbolism. Its members blame most of the country's ills on "people of alien ethnic origin," and refuse to ally themselves with any communists. Declares Pamyat president Dmitri Vasiliev: "No democratic, no communist system or any other ism will be able to stop this irresistible drive toward purification and freedom...
...central themes -- the conflicting claims of loyalty, ambition and love, the psychic links between the artist-outsider and the outlaw, the irrational constraints imposed on performers by aesthetic dunces in high places -- had immediate relevance for Carne and his colleagues. Now a wonderfully imaginative troupe of French origin, settled for more than a decade in Minneapolis, has found the melodrama surrounding the making of the movie just as rich a wellspring...
...says that in his experience mostAsian-Americans at Harvard are first orsecond-generation immigrants with close ties tothe nation of their family's origin...
Last year, after complaints by one South Asian student, the category was changed to "Asian American," accompanied by a request for "country of family's origin...
Very often, this is simply not the case. The actual number of Spaniards or "Spanish" entering the U.S. represents only a minute fraction of Hispanic immigration. Some have argued that the term is perfectly justifiable and legitimate because the origin of all Spanish-speakers can be traced back to Spain...