8-24-08—“What option do I have?” said Richard Wilson, 82, a Harvard physicist and an expert on nuclear power and environmental risk [at a Global Risk conference in Sicily]. “I could go down to Hilton Head and take a little club and knock a ball around the course, but I don’t find that a very attractive thought.” NYT
8-23/24-08—Now 40% of black students at Ivy League colleges are first- or second- generation immigrants... The growing prominence of black immigrants is prompting some to favor the term “black” as more accurate, and inclusive, than “African-American.” But the growing divresitiy of blacks in America, epitomized by Sen. Obama, also breeds tension. “I have definitely heard parents and friends who are Rwandan tell me, ‘You don’t want to associate with African-Americans. They are lazy. They have bad habits,’” says Mr. Mahirwe, [a] Columbia student. “And I am friends with African-Americans who will say, ‘Look at those Aricans. They take our jobs. They think they are better than us.’” WSJ A4
8-23-08—“The end of an empire is messy at best/And this empire is ending/Like all the rest”—Randy Newman, “A Few Words in Defense of Our Country” [on album Harps and Angels] NYT A25
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