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...Beverly Hills office of Dr. Barry Weintraub, Leila Ali, an Iranian- born clothing designer, stares at an image of her face on a television screen, fascinated by its changing profile. Beside her, the doctor manipulates a stylus on an electromagnetic pad. As they watch, the nose on Ali's TV image undergoes a subtle transformation, becoming less prominent and more turned...
...Great War ended, emotions and prophecies were tumultuously released. The job of tracing and cataloging them would require librarian, detective, scholar and interpreter. Stanley Weintraub, a Pennsylvania State University professor, is that committee. A Stillness Heard Round the World is a classic instance of information retrieval presented without bias or thesis. Unlike Paul Fussell, whose The Great War and Modern Memory (1975) brilliantly traced the outlines of World War I on contemporary art and life, Weintraub is content to play the role of time machine, flashing backward to gather the testimonies of eyewitnesses. They are unfailingly provocative...
Such incidents are the equivalent of cinema's frozen frames, and they give Weintraub's chronicle the sense of a long documentary film, traversing forgotten years and miles. On the surface, all is anecdote and diversion. But there is a hollowness to the cheers and the martial music. Weintraub follows an English schoolgirl running happily down a hallway, only to find a teacher weeping in her classroom. She had been widowed by the war. A bitter German slogan is brought back from the front: "Wir siegen uns zu Tode" (We'll conquer until we're all dead). And Gertrude Stein...
...labor allows businesses to be competitive while earning healthy profits, and some of the benefit is passed along to consumers in the form of lower prices. But illegal immigrants may also compete with unskilled Americans for many jobs. "Some people are hurt by illegal aliens, and some benefit," says Weintraub...
...sketchy and often contradictory. The Urban Institute found that in 1980 California spent an average of $3,254 on each Mexican immigrant household, both legal and illegal, in Los Angeles, but received tax revenues of only $1,515 in return. On the other hand, a 1982-83 study by Weintraub and his associates at the University of Texas indicated that Texas reaps about three times as much revenue from illegal aliens as it spends on them...