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Irreverence for religion cannot be tolerated if New York wants to combat the moral debasement which frighteningly colors so many of its crimes. The city's problems will persist if respect cannot even be mustered for the most basic rights of its individuals...
Many Haitians are hungry for quicker solutions. Rumors persist in Port-au- Prince that the American ships offshore harbor U.S. Marines who could land, just as they did in 1915 to restore stability and protect American investments following racial clashes between the country's mulatto and black citizens. Forgetting that the subsequent occupation lasted 19 years -- and was not always a happy one -- Haitian nationalists whisper that U.S. intervention may be the only answer. "You have to impose a solution. You can't negotiate," says one, who never thought he would welcome U.S. troops...
...even as these problems persist, Renee Tajima '80, the Japanese-American director of a documentary about the Chin murder, warns that Asian-Americans have become increasingly insular, ignoring the communities most likely to encounter such prejudice...
...such a stigma does persist, it does so in part because students get inaccurate ideas about psychotherapy from television and movies, Ducey says...
That kind of uncertainty is likely to persist. Few Americans will argue out loud that helping starving Somalis is a bad idea. And if there is to be a U.N.-centered world order, the U.S. should be willing to send its soldiers into humanitarian efforts as well as those that serve national interests, such as Desert Storm. But for this kind of military intervention on behalf of suffering people to become an accepted pattern in the world community, the test case must succeed. If the U.S. gets stuck in the anarchy of Somalia, or if it departs in haste, leaving...