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...largest Asian group on campus, has also chosen to play a more active role in Asian social and cultural events as part of their strategy to get students involved, according to Cara J. Wong '92, an AAA steering committee member. Once students are involved, she says, then members can learn about politics and participate in the club's political activities...
...year history, the powerful Los Angeles County board of supervisors has never had an elected member who was not a white male. This fact has long rankled members of the Hispanic community, who constitute one- third of the county's 9 million residents -- the largest concentration of Latinos in any U.S. urban area. Now a coalition of Hispanic groups, together with the Justice Department and the American Civil Liberties Union, is challenging the white board members' monopoly in federal court. Their lawsuit charges that the five-man board intentionally gerrymandered election districts to keep Latinos out of office. Hispanic activists...
...stand in line for hours last week in Flint, Mich., to ask him questions, throw verbal brickbats or cheer him on? Why has his movie Roger & Me stoked debate that has spilled from the entertainment pages into the news columns? And why is General Motors -- still the world's largest industrial corporation -- so darned annoyed by a gadfly like Moore...
...influx, which began rising last year, may signal the largest wave of immigration to the state of Israel since the years immediately after its founding in 1948. Last year 12,923 arrived from the Soviet Union; this year the government expects between 70,000 and 100,000, and some Israeli officials estimate that up to 700,000 Soviet Jews might make aliyah, the "ascent" to Israel, over the next three to five years. The prospect fills Israeli leaders with joy: immigration has slumped, and in some recent years it has been equaled and possibly surpassed by emigration. Prime Minister Yitzhak...
Although Harvard is the largest individual landowner in both Cambridge and Boston, it enjoys tax-exempt status on much of its real estate. To partially compensate the community for the loss of revenue, the University makes annual payments in lieu of taxes...