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...Integrating Europe Your report on the problem of integrating minorities into European societies was very timely [Feb. 26]. Some of the solutions Jumana Farouky advocated, however, struck me as unrealistic. As I see it, multiethnic and multiracial societies have not worked well anywhere else. The secret to peaceful coexistence is integration based on assimilation, with the minority group ready to become part of mainstream society, adopting the host nation's traditions and - above all - its language. This is what lies behind the successful U.S. concept of the melting pot, whereas the competing ideal of the salad bowl has mostly failed...
...we’re being candid, what this really boils down to are the problems in Harvard’s overall social scene. When I arrived at Harvard, I remember having the feeling that I’d reverted to middle school. The place struck me as overwhelmingly cliquey, and final club types were hardly the worst of this—cliques seemed to exist according to race, party affiliation, and a laundry list of other characteristics...
...stepped now from the luminous Worth Street blossom back into the ordinary mid-block evening, the whole view down Broadway struck him as unusually bright, saturated with light...
...also regularly consulted Air France employees so that they began to feel involved in the airline's management (staff opinions are sought on cabin uniforms from Christian Lacroix), and he struck labor agreements that would leave American managers gobsmacked. "We found a right balance of effort and reward, of commitment to plan and profit sharing via salaries and benefits," Spinetta explains. "Since then, the success of the company has depended on employees understanding our strategy, getting fully behind it and feeling secure knowing that if it all works out, profits from it will be redistributed to them." It's also...
...glamorous ex-wife arrives, along with their daughter, and a menagerie of others best kept apart, not to mention a pair of maids (who like each others’ pairs).The result is a series of trysts, each with varying degrees of success. Max and his best friend are struck by the affliction that makes Viagra viable, while Elena’s son beds a woman twice his age—Max’s ex-wife. But outside the bedroom, hardly anything happens. Smiley islands her reader in the kitchen or the TV room, where there is nothing...