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That prospect hardly pleases everyone. The new immigrants enter a country whose population of 258 million has comfortably filled the land and is worried about overpopulation and a threatened environment. Many are alarmed by a projection that if the immigrant tide continues, the U.S. population will rise to 392 million by the middle of the next century. The sluggish performance of the American economy, accompanied by persistent unemployment, makes aliens once again appear a threat to jobs. In particular, the growth of illegal immigration and the government's inability to stanch the flow are a constant irritant to Americans...
While adding exotic new creeds, the tide of immigration since the 1960s has also increased the variegation within Christianity. Millions of Hispanics have brought a florid, fervent Latin sensibility into U.S. Catholicism, challenging a church hierarchy dominated by the stolid sons and grandsons of Irish immigrants, who now are struggling to recruit Hispanic priests. The bishops also face Pentecostal or Baptist soul winners who successfully target Spanish- speaking neighborhoods. Meanwhile, Koreans have had a notable impact within - Protestantism with their evangelistic zeal and religious traditionalism...
...Department of History is in a flood tide of renovation. This is not the space in which to detail what I reviewed in an 80-minute interview with a reporter from The Crimson in September. To my knowledge you have not reported on that interview, in which I tried to place our failings, alleged and real, in the context of massive change, reform, and growth...
...total immersion during the last 10 days." The memo acknowledged that Clinton started well behind his opponents, but it argued that a series of meetings with more than 100 undecided members, regular TV appearances and a coordinated campaign with Republicans and business groups would turn the tide. But no sooner had the plan been hatched than Clinton was distracted by foreign policy fiascoes in Somalia and Haiti...
Since most of the outs who beat the ins or their would-be heirs were Republicans, it was tempting for G.O.P. partisans to read the results as constituting a tide for their party. Republicans have in fact won all eight of the most important races decided since Clinton's election a year ago (the earlier ones were for Senate seats in Georgia and Texas and for mayor of Los Angeles). Moreover, there were signs -- though ambiguous and inconclusive ones -- of a conservative, anti-tax, tough-on-crime, no-to-gay-rights mood that, to the extent it takes...