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Hispanics say that blacks resist any attempts to increase Latino employment. In Los Angeles County, for example, blacks, who make up 10% of the population, hold 30% of the county jobs. Hispanics, who constitute 33% of the population, ! hold only 18% of the jobs. "Blacks think we want to take jobs away from them, so they're fighting us tooth and nail," says Raul Nunez, president of the Los Angeles County Chicano Employees Association. "They are doing the same thing to us that whites did to them...
...throughout the Baltics are barricaded with concrete slabs, some decorated with patriotic murals. Now Moscow is threatening to impose economic sanctions on any republic that secedes, and the general staff of the armed forces is insisting that the Baltic governments pay "financial compensation" for any of their citizens who resist the draft...
...both British and American roads to corruption. The New Confessions turned a dubious premise, a reprise of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's life, into a fluent book that is both romp and rumination. His new book is not so bumptiously funny as previous ones, but the author cannot resist a few energizing japes...
...public tastes in entertainers, Fay has no regrets about her diminished standing in the world. She does wonder why she and her husband were not happier together: "Now I realize that it is marriage which is the great temptation for a woman, and that one can, and perhaps should, resist it." But the car accident that left her a widow also took the resolution of this problem out of her hands...
...Health and Human Services were to ask Harvard to pay back the government for improper charges, Harvard officials "would have a strong legal position" to resist the request, one HHS official said Tuesday...