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While Clinton's plan is a patchwork of political compromises, it is part of a real shift in federal policy that shows a new respect for nature. Throughout most of U.S. history, government actions have encouraged human exploitation of natural resources: logging, mining, drilling, grazing, damming rivers. That philosophy reached its height during the Reagan years, when Interior Secretary James Watt favored mining in wilderness areas...
Half the truth about small towns, much sentimentalized now that three-level regional malls with indoor waterfalls have replaced the towns as economic centers, is that they were wonderful, warm places where even the local drunk was part of the patchwork and where attention was paid. That's the genial view taken by novelist Richard Russo in The Risk Pool, Mohawk and his new book Nobody's Fool, three funny, loose-jointed yarns about backwater burgs in upstate New York. Doubtless it is contrary to recall the rest of the truth, which is that small towns were rigidly small-minded...
...year ago this month, when the city exploded in the worst riots in modern American history. Since then the city's features have been held up to a far different light. Much of what seemed modern and alluring about Los Angeles now seems terribly shortsighted and ugly. The ethnic patchwork appears to be a map of bunkered enclaves. Its center cannot hold because the city doesn't have one. The land without limits keeps running into dead ends: not enough money for schools, housing for newcomers, jobs for the working class, room to move. The laboratory of change produces...
Ethnic studies--in terms of analyzing the different heritages that form the patchwork quilt of our American society--is less a distinct "approach to knowledge" meant to characterize the other Core offerings, Instead, it appears better suited as a focus of courses within the other, already defined fields, like literature and arts, or historical studies...
...largest stumbling block to a negotiated settlement remains the map of the 10 ethnic enclaves that Vance and Owen propose. Even if Bosnian President Alia Izetbegovic were to accept it, as he hinted last week, Karadzic says he will not. The patchwork state as now drawn would require the Serbs to cut back their territorial holdings from 70% to 42% and leave almost a third of all Bosnian Serbs in provinces controlled by Muslims or Croats. Karadzic vows not to surrender a single Serb village, and his militias have shown their ability to turn other villages into Serbian strongholds almost...