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JAMES S. KUNEN, the author of this week's disquieting cover story on resegregation, has been writing vividly about social issues since, at 19, he penned The Strawberry Statement, a best-selling account of Columbia University's 1968 student strike against the Vietnam War. A TIME contributor since last October, Kunen spent many hours visiting classrooms in Kansas City, Missouri, and Norfolk, Virginia, observing students and teachers wrestling with the problems posed by separate but unequal education. But whomever he talked to, from black nationalists to advocates of magnet schools to staunch integrationists, he discovered a common goal that transcended...
...since then. Huge Chinese consumption exerts substantial influence over the grain supply, and in recent years its demand for feed grain has outstripped domestic supply. In recent years, China has become the world's largest importer of American wheat. One reason is modernization. As Asian countries like China, Japan, Vietnam and Korea industrialize, less land is cultivated for grain crops, and the populations begin to adopt Western-style diets rich in meat and eggs. The upshot: grain supplies drop and prices rise. "What this may mean for American consumers," says TIME's Tom Curry, "Is that, even though the grain...
...them. In any case, it is not entirely feckless nostalgia to say that the last age of real American parental responsibility was the age of Eisenhower, after which (as the boomers thought) adults became disreputable and untrustworthy (Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon). The deconstruction of American public authority in the Vietnam years left boundaries eroded and crumbling. Individual roles melted into one another. Older distinctive identities and purposes grew confused. Men and women interchange roles on a horizontal axis. Children and parents switch places on the vertical. Too many of the parents never abandoned their wistfully self-cherishing idea of themselves...
Reading about the tension between China and Taiwan [WORLD, April 1] made me realize just how naive I am. I thought this modern world we live in had learned from its mistakes, that World War II, Vietnam and other such events belonged forever to the past. Now, with Bosnia, Rwanda and the hundreds of other less publicized places where war, torture and oppression rule, it seems that today's world isn't all that different from the one of some 50 years ago. I thought I would be fighting not for peace in a foreign land but for such causes...
Harvard originally eliminated its on-campus ROTC program in 1970 after student protests of the U.S. military involvement in Vietnam...