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Rita Simon, a sociologist at the American University in Washington, tracked 200 parents and children from interracial families for 20 years. In 1971 she found the youngsters understood their race was different from that of their parents, but did not seem bothered by the fact. Twelve years later, the kids--then teenagers--perceived their parents as "very, very committed" to informing their children about black issues. "They would say, 'My God, not every dinner conversation has to be about black history,'" says Simon. When she returned again in 1991, the grown children told Simon, "We're not Oreos...
...stay that way; the independence party has never received 5% of the vote in any plebiscite. But many of them still want to protect their own culture, their own language, their own candidate in Miss Universe competitions, which they've won an extraordinary five times. And most mainland politicians seem more or less satisfied with the quasi-colonial status quo. So while on June 1 Puerto Ricans will exert more influence than they've ever had before in U.S. politics, by June 2, they'll still lack the right to vote for their commander-in-chief...
...small experimental theater in downtown Prague on May 22, is not autobiographical. It's true that the play, entitled Leaving, and has echoes of Shakespeare's King Lear, tells the story of a top official leaving office -as former President Havel did in 2003. Some of its characters seem easily recognizable to those familiar with Czech politics. But Havel is not being disingenuous: The lead character, an aging politician named Vilem Rieger, is far too humorless to represent the former dissident who once scored Lou Reed an after-dinner gig at the White House. "I was interested in the more...
...That doesn't seem to be McCain's way, however. He is all bluster and impatience. If nothing else, his assault on Obama has renewed questions about whether McCain has the temperament to be President. A few years ago, in friendlier times, the Senator and I talked about the Cuban missile crisis. At a crucial moment, John F. Kennedy received two messages from the Soviets - one bellicose, one accommodating. He chose to ignore the bellicose message and very likely saved the world. "You probably would've chosen the wrong message," I teased McCain. "I probably would have," he laughed...
...they believe it's essential to winning Florida, which in turn is essential to winning the White House. But the state - especially the growth of its non-Cuban Latino community, which is often irritated by all the attention thrust on Cuba - has changed more than McCain and the G.O.P. seem to realize. The Democrats, of course, haven't been much more clued in themselves in recent years. But Obama has already signaled that when he gives his own speech in Miami, he's likely to challenge at least bits of the status quo - he supports letting Cuban-Americans visit Cuba...