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...might also come as a surprise to know that students of White Anglo-Saxon Protestant descent are now underrepresented at Harvard. The only two groups that are over represented--and they happen to be extremely overrepresented--are Jewish and Asian students, who comprise about one-fourth and one fifth of the class of 1996, respectively...
...Establishment. At the same time, his heritage has given him an outsider's perspective. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Jacobs spent part of his youth on Mohawk reservations upstate and in Canada, where "I was criticized by relatives and friends for being too educated." But he also lived in Anglo communities in New York and New Jersey, where "I was often the darkest- skinned child in my class...
...true that Vance and Owen appear hopelessly overmatched trying to bring Anglo-Saxon-style conciliation to a place ravaged by byzantine blood feuds. It is no surprise that the Geneva talks have collapsed. Mere mediators cannot force an agreement. Which is precisely why Western governments should be providing the muscle behind the mediation. They should be putting the heaviest pressure -- including threats of intervention -- on Serbs and Muslims to accept the Vance plan. (The Croats have already done...
...larger point is that Jack takes his white, Anglo-Saxon status for / granted, while his late friend was self-conscious about his position. "Ben liked to joke that he was his own invention and therefore never could be certain how he really felt about anything or anybody," Jack confides, along with his supply of juicy details about Ben's business and sleeping arrangements...
...first, to France. Sickert was the main link between European and British painting at the turn of the century: the son of a Danish father and an Anglo-Irish mother, born in Munich, fluent in German and French. When the general histories of modern art mention him at all, it's as a small footnote to the Symbolists and the Postimpressionists, like Bonnard (the nudes in bedrooms) or Toulouse-Lautrec (the music-hall scenes). But one needs to remember that Sickert was slightly older than most of these painters. He was born in 1860; they hardly influenced...