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Many children of the Asian immigrants who came over in the 1960s and 1970s say they didn't find that kind of self-affirmation until, like Fareha Ahmed, they got to college. Raymond Yang was one of only three Asians in a class of 420 at his high school in East Northport, N.Y. "I always felt like I was between worlds, especially in high school," says Yang, 28, whose parents are Chinese. That interim place felt like his and his alone?until he got to Brown University. When Yang was a freshman in 1995, there were 854 other Asian Americans...
IDENTIFIED. The body of BARRY COWSILL, 51, bass player for the hugely popular 1960s family pop group the Cowsills, who inspired TV's The Partridge Family, who disappeared in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and was found on Dec. 28 on the Chartres Street wharf in New Orleans. With their good looks and bouncy harmonies, the Cowsills?including Barry's brothers Bill, Bob, John and Paul, sister Susan and mother Barbara?charted eight pop singles from 1967 to '69, with their biggest hits, Hair and The Rain, the Park and Other Things, both reaching...
DIED. YAO WENYUAN, 74, the last surviving member of China's Gang of Four, the ring of radical Maoists?led by Mao Zedong's wife Jiang Qing?who directed the jailings, beatings and purges of legions of perceived enemies during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and '70s; of diabetes; in a location undisclosed by Chinese officials. Arrested a month after Mao's death, Yao spent 20 years in jail before being released...
...state lawmakers. Alito's dad, who had occasionally let his son come to see his work at the statehouse, was widely admired for his nonpartisan approach. Although people knew he was a Republican, both parties trusted his judgment, putting him in charge of a redistricting project in the 1960s. He was also known for being strict, firing employees who violated the rules of the apolitical office by expressing their views of pending legislation. And like his son, he was a stickler for careful writing, sharply criticizing any material his staff members wrote that had grammatical errors...
...notify her husband before she has an abortion. Democrats also seized on Alito's record of ruling against employees who allege gender or racial discrimination. They were alarmed too by the 1985 Justice Department application and wondered why Alito said he was opposed to Supreme Court decisions in the 1960s promoting reapportionment, which was designed to ensure fairer representation of urban minorities...