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...case, the U.S. has not been tinkering with situations in Bosnia and Somalia in order to stem a Marxist tide. If anything, despots Milosevic and Aidid stray toward the other, fascist end of the political spectrum. But the other facet of the war in Vietnam--the U.S.'s long, intractable involvement--does merit some fear of repetition...
...Rhode Island (5-1) answered with an 11-0 spurt, scoring easy basket after easy basket in transition. Butler (22 points, 14 rebounds) stemmed the tide with a nice inside move, but the Rams finished the half strong to take a 28-25 lead going into the locker rooms...
...harder Canadian officials struggle to hold back the tide, the more ridiculous the battle seems. "People are only talking about Teale because of the ban," says Bob Levin, an American journalist who is an assistant managing editor at the Toronto newsweekly MacLean's. "The ban has backfired." Some Canadian journalists think a review of such restrictions is long overdue. Jim Coyle of the Ottawa Citizen says the ban is "based on the insulting assumption that the public is a pack of morons who would be irretrievably tainted should they know certain facts...
...ignorant of U.S. laws, even as they hold tightly to values brought from their homelands. But business as usual in the old country can be a felony in the U.S.; conventional child-rearing practices there, for example, might be considered child abuse here. One result of the rising immigrant tide is the increasing use of "the cultural defense" -- legal shorthand for courtroom attempts to explain the actions of foreign-born defendants by invoking the mores and taboos of their native countries. Defense attorneys use the tactic in two major ways: to persuade prosecutors to reduce charges and to encourage judges...
...tide of humanity that has washed over the American continent during the last three or four decades of the 20th century has had profound consequences, to be sure. But in relative terms, it is no match for the waves that came ashore during the 19th. Between Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo in 1815 and the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo in 1914, more than 30 million Europeans left their homelands -- some involuntarily -- to settle in the U.S. It was by far the greatest mass movement in human history. The influx continues, in ever greater variety. For people...