Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Social climbers took one path: First, trains and highways followed the rich to their country homes, bringing commuter suburbs into existence. The rich relocated, farther out, and the process repeated. The place to be slid from Georgetown to McLean to Culpeper; from Cambridge to Concord to Sherburne...
...frightened took another path: The urban riots of the late '60s and the busing fights of the early '70s were the last straw for an already frustrated white middle class. White flight resulted in a huge real estate turnover in middle class urban neighborhoods, the housing glut drove prices down, and working class whites or middle and working class Blacks inherited the neighborhoods...
...more than 350 years, almost twice as long as this has been a country, Harvard has plugged along, breaking the path. The Harvards have had only 26 presidents. Now they've come up with a gifted administrator off the Princeton campus and the foundation A-Team. He carries the hopes of not just Harvard's affluent alumni; he has a job to do for America...
Among Western nations in the path of the East European exodus, Greece is the destination of choice for shepherds. First, hordes of penniless Bulgarian shepherds showed up sans flocks. Then Albanian shepherds started pouring in, bringing along their herds. Athens sent the Albanians home but kept the animals. Sheep without shepherds + shepherds without sheep = solution, yes? No. E.C. rules prevent Athens from exporting, selling or giving away the sheep. Athens is now seeking aid to provide the Bulgarians with fresh flocks. Meanwhile, the Albanian sheep are not long for this world. Anybody for shish kebab...
...unusually high this week as the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence conducts hearings on George Bush's choice of Robert Gates, the Deputy National Security Adviser, to be the next director of the CIA. Whoever holds that job will have to put the sprawling intelligence community on a new path and defend the agency against critics who are calling for it to be downsized or disassembled...