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...were dancing around the campfire in loincloths," he recalls. "It was both ironic and offensive." To fit in, Jacobs largely rejected his Indian background during his adolescent years. Today, however, the Connecticut home he shares with two children and his art historian wife Mary Jane Clark ("a full-blooded Wasp," he notes) boasts a room filled with Indian keepsakes. The family will soon be relocating to the Washington area, where Clark will find an old schoolmate: her dorm counselor at Wellesley, Hillary Rodham Clinton...
Before the visit, one more-than-slightly-misinformed Boston Globe writer called Andover one of the oldest (est. 1778), preppiest bastions of WASP hood in the country, a place where future Republicans are hatched...
...back of a closet at my parents' house hangs my wrinkled and musty barong. In the six years since my father, a Filipino immigrant who married a WASP from Connecticut, brought it back from his home town, I haven't put it on even once...
Furthermore, the blue-collar WASP half of my ancestry has suffered more from circumstances beyond its control than my white-collar Asian half ever did. My father's father teaches law at a Philippine university, employs two maids and paid for undergraduate and professional degrees for all of his eight children. My mother's father worked in a factory, and his children didn't go to college. I grew up in a middle-class suburb because of my father's education, not because of the color of my mother's skin...
Clinton has received high marks for naming nearly as many blacks and women as Wasp men to his Cabinet. But centrist Democrats have reason to doubt Clinton's commitment to political reform. Several of the "new Democrats" who helped generate the best ideas for Clinton's campaign, including Democratic Leadership Council luminaries David Osborne and Robert Shapiro, have not found places in the new regime. Said former drug czar and Education Secretary Bill Bennett: "We know now that 'a place called Hope' seems to be a room full of lawyers." For all the ethnic and gender diversity of Clinton...