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No More Room for Refugees
Only Indochinese with special ties will be admitted Since Saigon fell to the Communists in 1975, more than 1.2 million people have fled Indochina, most of them risking perilous journeys overseas in rickety fishing craft. Horrified by the plight of the boat people, a number of countries in Asia and the West liberalized their immigration policies to accommodate the flood of refugees
Fighting for Free Speech in Schools
The first morning of the 2005 school year held more than the typical jitters for Toni Kay Scott. One moment, the seventh-grader, known as T.K., was stepping from her mom’s Ford pickup to join friends in front of Redwood Middle School in Napa, Calif
Art: The Whitney Biennial: A Fiesta of Whining
It is an axiom that next to running the National Endowment for the Arts, curating the Whitney Biennial is the worst job in American culture. Every two years, the dread summons to represent the most vital and interesting currents in American art looms before the museum.
After a Bombing, Belarus’ Tyrant Cracks Down on Everybody
On Monday night, after touring the site of the subway bombing that killed at least 12 people in the capital of Belarus, the country’s authoritarian president, Alexander Lukashenko, cast the net of suspicion as far and wide as he could.
Africa: Get Up Stand Up
The problem for anyone trying to make what Bob Marley once called “rebel music” today is not that there’s too little rebellion out there but, by Western pop culture’s liberal definition, that there’s way too much. Since the dawn of rock ‘n’ roll, popular music has been de facto rebellious, at least insofar as the term is defined by record labels and soft-drink ads.
Despite Its Woes, California’s Dream Still Lives
California, you may have heard, is an apocalyptic mess of raging wildfires, soaring unemployment, mass foreclosures and political paralysis. It’s dysfunctional
Salvador’s Supersalesman
With an assist from Duarte, Reagan reassures Congress and critics The Reagan Administration wants to give billions of dollars to Central America, it says, to support liberty and political pluralism.
A New Palestinian Movement: Young, Networked, Nonviolent
Fadi Quran is the face of the new Middle East.
Thailand Tourism Devastated by Political Unrest
Thailand excels at throwing out the welcome mat for visitors. In the 50 years since the Tourism Authority of Thailand and Thai Airways were founded, the country has evolved from an obscure, barely visited Southeast Asian backwater to one of the developing world’s most expertly marketed travel destinations.