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...Japanese still look down on resident foreigners. The 700,000 Koreans who constitute Japan's largest alien enclave must overcome legal barriers to obtain citizenship, although many of them were born and bred in Japan during the early part of the century, when Korea was a Japanese colony. The 5,000 Indochinese refugees taken in by Japan after the Viet Nam War find assimilation all but impossible. "Japanese heartily welcome foreigners on short visits," explains Masahiro Tsubouchi of the Tokyo immigration office. "They just don't want them to stay forever...
...sure, as many as 1,000 of the amphibians at first congregated dubiously at the entrance to the tunnel of love, hesitant to make a move. But "after all, a tunnel is a nasty, alien thing," said Society Spokesman John Burton. Once the toads got the hang of it, however, they hopped right through to their assignations...
Steen, Turner and two other teachers--Robert Polhill, 53, of New York City, and Mithileshwar Singh, 60, an Indian who is a legal resident alien of the United States--were abducted January 24 from the Beirut: University College campus in west Beirut. Steen, 47, is from Boston, and Turner, 39, from Boise, Idaho...
Snowball: Sigourney Weaver, Aliens. Think about it. Think about what this nomination says about the taste and integrity of Academy members. Think about a screaming baby alien exploding out of Weaver's chest halfway through her acceptance speech: "I'd like to thank my parents, and my high school elocution teacher, and...Oh, excuse me, I must have gas...What the...Oh, my God!...SQUEEEEA...
...reassure people about finals, to talk about concentrations, to let freshmen know about events tucked away in the Harvard information barrage, or to be there to listen. Juniors and seniors, who did not have prefects for their full freshman year, may remember how upperclass student's often seemed alien, the houses remote, Harvard bewildering. On a campus where the freshman year is in so many ways set apart, we shouldn't underestimate what contact and communication with upperclass students, who have found their own niches, can do to help freshmen explore and situate themselves here. So while we sympathize with...