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Mayer went West in 1918, just after the first wave of Hollywood pioneers. He had been on the move since his threadbare family left its Cossack-ridden Ukrainian village in the late 1880s and a few years later settled in St. John, New Brunswick. There his father Jacob Mayer struggled as a junkman. Little Louie, half starved, battled anti-Semitic bullies and helped his father--whom he despised as much as he adored his mother. Escaping St. John in his late teens, he moved on to Boston, where he discovered the Nickelodeon, the embryo of the moving-picture business. Quick...
Hrushevs'Kyi Professor of Ukrainian History Roman Szporluk, who teaches History 1515: "States and Nations: 1905-1991," agrees that ethnic groups should generally not be allowed to secede from a nation, but adds there are some instances in which a break-up is better...
Coming second is Globalstar's chief drawback. Its service is not scheduled to kick off until 1999--a year behind Iridium's schedule. And this month Globalstar ran into a potentially more serious snag. Minutes after a Ukrainian-built Zenit-2 rocket carrying 12 Globalstar satellites thundered skyward from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Sept. 10, its engine failed. The 460-ton rocket fell back to Earth, showering debris across southern Siberia and driving Globalstar's stock down 40% overnight. The $190 million payload was covered by insurance, but the disaster delayed the system's debut even further...
Since now. If I were a truly responsible citizen, I'd also be worried about the Ukrainian groundhog and the Azerbaijani chipmunk or whatever those currencies are called. Now that the cold war is over, we not only have all of our worries, we also have all of what used to be their worries. Their drought is now our drought, and no longer something to cheer about...
...hubris is characteristic of the Harvard-educated computer whiz who once listed his IQ on his resume: 214. Born out of wedlock to a Ukrainian-Jewish immigrant, Unz went on to win first prize in the Westinghouse Science Talent Search and, after majoring in theoretical physics and ancient history, studied quantum gravitation with Stephen Hawking at Cambridge University. In 1988 he formed a financial-software firm, Wall Street Analytics, which made him wealthy, and began funding conservative think tanks. Unz, who grew up in a Yiddish-speaking household, says, "America is successful because we have assimilated immigrants...