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...about freedom of speech. But such a debate, while academically interesting, would only mask the most important issue: the phenomenon of systemic, unacknowledged racism surrounding Asian Americans. For our part, we neither seek amends from Details nor wish in any way to see their right of expression curbed. We aim instead to draw attention to the assumption pervasive in the larger readership that the definition of an “Asian” American includes homogeneity, foreignness and incomprehensibility. The Asian American has been imagined less as a person than as a caricature: like a person, but without comparable depth...
...students won thousands of dollars from the National Education Security Program (NSEP), which targets “world regions critical to U.S. interests,” and the Freeman-Asia grants, which are available only to students with financial need and aim to increase study of East Asian countries...
...word in the Koolhaas vocabulary. His buildings can be fascinating, vexing, exciting, even annoying, but don't count on them to produce the indisputable new kind of beauty that you routinely get from Frank Gehry. Beauty is an occasional by-product of the Koolhaas approach but never an aim...
Hyman said that one of the primary assertions of the report is that terrorists aim to inflict psychological trauma...
Although planning for Eleganza has been a 50-hour-per-week job for the producers, all of their diligent efforts hope to make traditionally studious Harvard students put their books down and have some fun. In addition to models, there will be stepping and dancing, aiming for an all-around “assault on the senses,” as Melvin calls it. According to the producers, the aim is to put on something commercial and professional with a distinct Harvard flavor...