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TODAY, NEW YORK'S Hester Street offers up an ethnic potpourri. One end of the street is Italian, another is Puerto Rican, and a recent New York Times article reports that "Hester Street's tomorrow, which has already begun today, is clearly Chinese-American." Joan Micklin Silver's film by the same name is set at the turn of the century, a time when the street was a major center of activity in New York's Jewish ghetto, and the men who shuffled down its sidewalks were mumbling Yiddish under their beards...
...floating of the city's debt, with full federal guarantees (comparable to the guarantees offered, say, on Puerto Rican bonds). The Treasury should peg the interest rate on these bonds to the fluctuating interest rate on the government's own notes, and set it about 1/4% to 1/2% higher...
Married. Freddie Prinze, 21, the self-described Hungarican (half Hungarian, half Puerto Rican) comic who plays the cheeky Chicano garage attendant on TV's top-rated Chico and the Man; and Kathy Cochran, 23, a Jackson Hole, Wyo., travel agent he met on a ski trip last spring; both for the first time; in Las Vegas...
Times are likely to become worse for New York's schools as budget cuts begin to eat into teacher rosters and programs. At P.S. 340, a neat, well-tended elementary school in the predominantly black and Puerto Rican South Bronx, Principal Larcelia Kebe worries about managing a full complement of 825 students with fewer teachers this year; 15 of her 35 teachers have been laid off or transferred, as have 13 of her 17 para-professionals (trainees who work with regular instructors at half pay; many study for their own teacher's certificates). Security protection has been reduced...
...problem is that the language learned at home and in the streets can be crippling in America if the black child-or the Puerto Rican raised on Spanish, the Jewish child raised on Yiddish-does not also learn the standard English that is the currency of opportunity. J. Mitchell Morse, a professor of English at Temple University, writes vehemently: "To the extent that the establishment depends on the inarticulacy of the governed, good writing is inherently subversive ... Black English, the shuffling speech of slavery, serves the purposes of white racism." Of course, there is angry argument over whether black dialect...