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...atmosphere of rumor and speculation, no one was immune from passing on misinformation. A day after the fired guards filed suit in L.A., Fields was in a Santa Monica courtroom seeking a six-year postponement of the civil suit that started off the current saga. Fields let slip that because a grand jury in Santa Barbara was considering a criminal indictment in the same case (leveled by a 13-year-old boy who says the entertainer sexually abused him), the civil suit should be put on hold lest Jackson inadvertently incriminate himself during the proceedings. The other lawyer...
Even more startling, sometime during the second half of the 21st century the descendants of white Europeans, the arbiters of the core national culture for most of its existence, are likely to slip into minority status. "Without fully realizing it," writes Martha Farnsworth Riche, director of policy studies at Washington's Population Reference Bureau, "we have left the time when the nonwhite, non-Western part of our population could be expected to assimilate to the dominant majority. In the future, the white, Western majority will have to do some assimilation...
...danger is not that a new post-Wasp personality will emerge. A nation's character is not so mutable; it takes major upheaval -- revolution, conquest -- to transform it. What is possible, however, is that the character America already possesses will slip into chronic malfunction. Most of us will keep behaving the way we always have, without knowing why, while the rest will act differently, simply for the sake of being different. It is a sad end for an ideal -- especially for one that has been as fruitful as the Wasp...
...Slip-Slidin' Away: The Crimson's 3-3 Brown-out cost it some respect on the national scene as it fell four spots to ninth place in the latest edition of the Troy (N.Y.) Record's collegiate hockey poll...
Harvard crawled back into the game with a 23-7 run at the start of the second half. Increased defensive intensity led to a more wide-open offensive attack, and Colgate nearly let the game slip away...