Herman Badillo knows something about assimilation, education and success. Orphaned in his native Puerto Rico when he was 11, he moved in with his aunt in the Bronx. Despite grinding poverty and discrimination, he still got a good education that culminated in a law degree and then launched a 50-year career in public service that included stints as Bronx borough president, congressman, deputy mayor, chief mayoral adviser and chancellor of the City University of New York. He has seen the evolution of Hispanics in America and is unimpressed to put it mildly. In his autobiography, "One Nation, One Standard," he...
