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...humanitarian; of heart failure; in Berlin. A few years after stunning a San Francisco audience at his first major concert at age 7, the prodigy went on to play at Carnegie Hall, where colleagues had to tune his violin for him because his fingers were too small. A New York-born Jew who lived in London, Menuhin was endlessly open-minded--he loved the Beatles and jammed with Ravi Shankar--and was consumed with using his music to promote world peace. Of his 75-year career, which included establishing schools for young musicians, playing for World War II soldiers...
Certainly being a Jew does not lead to any particular set of opinions. This point is well-illustrated by the recent documentary film, "Arguing the World: The New York Jewish Intellectuals," thoughtfully mentioned in Suleiman's March 9 column and reviewed in the March 13 Arts section. "Arguing the World" focuses on the lives and intellectual development of four New York-born Jewish intellectuals, all from working class backgrounds, who attended City College in the 1930s--the late Social Democrat Irving Howe, centrists Daniel Bell and Nathan Glazer and neo-conservative Irving Kristol...
...Airlink, which emanates from Mississippi, propagates its "pro-majority" views in somewhat more sedate fashion. "We don't use four-letter words, and there's no hollering or yelling," says Richard Barrett, 49, a New York-born lawyer who heads the right-wing Nationalist Movement and is Airlink's producer and host. There are, however, plenty of approving words for neo-Nazi groups and whites who arm themselves against violent minorities. Barrett, who says his show airs in 60 markets, is the most litigious of the hate-TV crowd. He | has sued the city of Houston over...
Powell, the New York-born son of Jamaican immigrants, entered the Army via the ROTC program at the City College of New York. He too got a boost from the White House, where he was a fellow in 1972, working for Frank Carlucci, then deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget. When Carlucci became National Security Adviser to Ronald Reagan, he named Powell as his deputy. Powell became Reagan's Security Adviser in 1987 when Carlucci was appointed Secretary of Defense...
...Philippine 70,000. Add to those groups a spicy mixture of Japanese, Thais, Laotians, Cambodians, Vietnamese and Hmong, plus contingents from Pacific Island outposts, and the city that Columnist Herb Caen likes to call "Baghdad by the Bay" more closely resembles Hong Kong East. Says New York-born and Hong Kong- reared Leslie Tang, 32, a commercial developer: "We don't have the political representation that our presence would warrant. We have been accused of being invisible, but there will be a rise in Asian political activity...