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...nature desperately want to belong?the feeling of alienation can be so painful that they will do almost anything to make it go away, to fit in. For years, Mark Hong, 31, shunned the only other Asian kid he knew in Davenport, Iowa, and hung out with the popular???and other than him, entirely white?crowd at school: the jocks. "I repelled anything that was Asian because it represented everything that was not cool at the time. Asians did kung fu and worked at Asian restaurants," he explains. That his Korean-born dad was actually an engineer at Caterpillar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Between Two Worlds | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

...only First Lady to ever have a march organized against her," boasted Betty Ford, 57, after a chorus of black-clad women in front of the White House chanted their disapproval of her enthusiastic lobbying for the Equal Rights Amendment. Last year Betty became the most controversial?and popular???First Lady since Eleanor Roosevelt, speaking out on a variety of once delicate topics. Abortion: "I feel it is the right of a human being to make her own decisions." Marijuana: "It's the type of thing that young people have to experience." The prospect of a premarital affair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Dozen Who Made a Difference | 1/5/1976 | See Source »

This time Paul von Hindenburg sent to Wilhelm Marx a letter virtually demanding that the Chancellor's party (Catholic Centrists) compose its differences over the so-called "school bill" with the People's Party, potent faction of Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann. These two parties?Catholic, Popular???comprise the main support of the coalition cabinet. They are quarreling over legislation designed to abolish Catholic instruction in the public schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Hindenburg's Quill | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

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