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...Clinton Justice Department are discussing a settlement of an antitrust case that should soon allow MIT and the Ivy League schools to once again share financial aid information about prospective students, several press outlets reported yesterday...
...violence leaps to the West Bank, where Palestinian gunmen open fire on Israelis parked on a roadside near Ramallah, killing a 24-year-old kindergarten teacher and a 19-year-old yeshiva student. Protesting Israeli settlers, who oppose the peace settlement with the P.L.O., take their turn building barricades and setting tires aflame, snarling traffic throughout the West Bank. A day later in Hebron, armed settlers, clashing with stone-throwing Palestinians, kill one and wound nine of them...
Until recently, American history texts were resolutely Anglocentric, beginning the immigration story with the first successful English settlements -- at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607 and Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts, in 1620. The British, in fact, were latecomers. In 1565 a convicted Spanish smuggler named Pedro Menendez de Aviles, leading a ragtag army of perhaps 1,500 that included blacksmiths and brewers as well as foot soldiers, built the first permanent European settlement on American soil at St. Augustine, Florida. (The ruins of Menendez's first fort were discovered only last summer.) Thirty-three years later, Juan de Onate established a colonial capital...
...Spanish, typically more interested in the pursuit of gold than in settlement, easily subjugated the Indians, enslaving those who did not die of imported diseases like smallpox. The 500,000 or so Indian inhabitants of Eastern North America at the time of the first English settlements were not so easily conquered. These resilient and warlike nations -- principally the Algonquin and Iroquois in the north, the Muskoghean and Choctaw in the south -- were happy to trade with the white man and adopt his weapons, but not his Christian faith or his mores. And they would fight to the death to defend...
...were from Eastern and Southern Europe: Russian Jews, Poles, Italians and Greeks. They too left the Old World to escape poverty and, in the case of the Jews, persecution. Like their predecessors, they were mostly peasants, but they faced a different and unhappy prospect. The great era of frontier settlement was coming to an end. After being processed at Ellis Island in Upper New York Bay and other immigration centers, millions of these rural folk found themselves confined to the mean streets of urban ghettos like Manhattan's , festering Lower East Side, working at menial jobs and crammed into narrow...