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...toss around terms like "multiculturalism," but we no longer know what they mean. Indeed, our definitions have become distorted, twisted around. Once we spoke of assimilation and a "melting pot;" now, a new breed of scholarship emphasizes a curious form of academic segregation. Where once we studied and learned American history, now we study Afro-American, Asian-American and other ethnically-defined histories. And we do it in the name of multiculturalism...
...University of Pennsylvania professor has remarked, American colleges and universities have created "the cultural diversity of Beirut." Such separation from the common academic and social life both reinforces old divisions and creates new ones. It flies in the face of the image of America as a melting pot which helped assimilate our ancestors into the rich and vibrant culture we have inherited...
...Death arrives like a pig in a blanket, like a carrot in a pot," says Hector, "salted, salted." Which might make you think that he's not taking the experience very seriously. He is not, however, without fear or selfpity. What makes his experience visible to the reader is that he does not demonstrate his lack of denial, as he says, by non-stop screaming. AIDS leaves him quite clearly a human being, as it does in fact to all of those who contract it, and because we have not known Hector previously, the story is new, we have...
...Ryan, 1994's Hasty Pudding "Woman of the Year," was paraded through Harvard Square and received the famed Pudding Pot at a roast yesterday...
...Someday, someone will tell me what I did to deserve this," Ryan laughed as the Pudding gave her a bouquet of red roses and their Pot...