Word: asianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...added that it serves "the cheapest Asian food in the area, in terms of quantity...
...recent decision by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to create a junior faculty post in the English Department for Asian-American literature seems to fulfill a need for diversity in faculty and curriculum which until now has been ignored. The only problem is that this position will displace one of the visiting professorships allotted to the Committee on Ethnic Studies--one of the few instruments backed by the Administration which brings to Harvard a diverse group of scholars interested in race and ethnicity within an American context...
...administration with a weak commitment to ethnic studies would accommodate one student group by ignoring another, thereby attempting to pit students against each other. Afro-American studies at Harvard is very strong; with this new junior faculty position I hope to see the beginnings of an equally strong Asian-American program. But where are Latinos left? Have we no place? We are supposed to be the largest minority group within the United States come the 21st century, yet our presence has been all but ignored by the Harvard administration...
...spenders? Saudi Arabia easily tops the list with $9 billion in purchases. Egypt and the east Asian nations don't even come close. The big exporters? It's the usual suspects: Britain, France, China, Russia and the good old US of A - who also just happen to be the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council. Strange, that...
...liberalization was theological as well. In traditional Buddhism, withdrawal from the world's passions was often assumed to preclude political action (although heads of large Asian monasteries often set up de facto alliances with local power structures, for better or worse). Americans, however, were attracted to "engaged Buddhism" of the sort most eloquently championed by Thich Nhat Hanh, famous for his 1960s anti-war activism. In Yonkers, N.Y., Zen master Bernard Glassman has established--using Zen principles--a bakery, garment company and building-renovation firm staffed by the formerly homeless and unemployed...