Word: asianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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America may be on the brink of war, the Asian markets may be leaning off a ledge, but when the beepers started going off in the East Room, it was not the Secretaries of State and Defense who leaped from their tables and made for the doors. It was newsman Peter Jennings who "shot out of his seat like a rocket," a Clinton aide recalls. White House staff members had heard rumors all afternoon that something big, something bad was about to break. The blow came when printouts of a story from the next day's New York Times began...
Discussions and cultural workshops will be offered throughout the day, including one centered on the issue of Asian Americans and transgenderism given by Selena Whang, a transgender performing artist from New York University...
Among those featured at the Cultural Show Saturday night will be the Mountain Brothers, an Asian-American hiphop group that has recently signed with Columbia Records for an album this spring, Chung said...
Sunday's activities include "coffeehouse readings" in Loker Commons, which, according to Chung, will feature Asian-American writers such as Jeffrey C. Yang '89, founder of A magazine; a panel discussionon ethnic studies; and Matsui's closing address,entitled "Leadership and Political Empowerment inthe Asian-American Community...
Matsui, a 20-year veteran of Washington, D.C.,and co-author of the Japanese-American RedressBill of 1987, is one of only three Asian Americansin the House of Representatives and only one offive in Congress, according to his presssecretary...