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...felt it was important to fill that gap [of a Chinese-American conference], since certain issues are more applicable to a Chinese-American conference than an Asian-American conference," said Andrew G.W. Chung '99, co-president of HRCSA and conference chair...
Alas, it will have to be told much more: most analysts think Wyden will be re-elected comfortably. Still, winning the Republican nomination in a state with an Asian population of just 3% was no small feat for Lim. For Asian Americans, it is one of several heartening political breakthroughs that began with the 1996 election of Washington's Gary Locke as the first Asian-American Governor in the continental U.S. Two other national candidacies have boosted Asian visibility this year: in California, Republican Senate candidate Matt Fong, the taciturn state treasurer, has pulled into a dead heat with Democrat...
...which means that Asian-American representation in the hallways of power has gone from barely noticeable to modestly influential. Despite being the fastest-growing, best-educated and most affluent minority group in America, Asians have traditionally been somewhat diffident when it comes to politics. Nearly two-thirds of Asians in the U.S. are immigrants, many from countries with checkered democratic traditions; most push their kids to become doctors and engineers, not lawmakers. Many saw the 1996 campaign-finance scandal as a Yellow Peril witch-hunt. One Indian aspirant for a House seat in Indiana, R. Nag Nagarajan, lost...
...Asian vote is expected to be 10% of California's electorate by 2000. Nevertheless, it cannot be courted as if it were a single-minded bloc. Says Stewart Kwoh, executive director of the Asian Pacific American Legal Center in Los Angeles: "There hasn't been a stand taken by either the Democrats or the Republicans that has unified Asian Americans behind one party." If Asian-American voters share one thing, it's a predilection toward socially moderate, pro-business pragmatism, which is what Asian-American Democrats like Governor Locke have in common with Asian-American Republicans like Lim and Fong...
...average, black students scored 9.30 points lower on the LSAT than white students; Latino students, 6.87 points lower; Native American students, 3.77 points lower; and Asian-American students, 2.48 points behind...