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...tell of their childhood are "the same kind of talk about social exclusion that you might have found among Italians and Jews in the 1930s," says Harvard sociologist Mary Waters. But previous generations of immigrants' kids, including those Italians and Jews, lived in neighborhoods with built-in social support structures???people who looked like them, ate like them, prayed like them. They had what Marissa Dagdagan, 28, a daughter of Filipino-born doctors, who grew up in Burr Ridge, Ill, says she did not?"people like me that I could corroborate with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Between Two Worlds | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

Buildings. Duke moved last Autumn out from Durham and up the broad asphalt avenue to the clearing in the forest. The women's college took possession of the old Trinity campus with several new buildings added. The first spring in the clearing finds everything there completed? 31 separate structures???except the great chapel which is rising opposite where the asphalt avenue sweeps into the clearing. The long axis of the campus is at right angles to the avenue, with the hospital at the right end as you enter and dormitory quadrangles opening off the left end, beyond the long double...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: In a Carolina Forest | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

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