Word: asianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hard to tell whether Hawaii is the best or worst laboratory in the nation for this unusual political experiment. On one hand, it's a place where the institutions of statehood--constitution, courts, parties--were designed in the 1950s by people who had recently suffered raw discrimination. Asian Americans who remembered the internment camps of World War II, laborers who worked for white plantation owners on the mainland, minority war veterans who fought side by side with white G.I.s who called them names--these folks wrote the constitution in 1950. In it, they enshrined protections for minorities and unions. Discrimination...
...already know this. Annual events held by groups like the Black Students Association or the Asian American Association often garner larger audiences than does Springfest. Discussions and lectures sponsored by the Minority Student Alliance or RAZA effectively add more to the Harvard community than random, though kind, gifts of cherry lollipops or roses for the House dining staff...
...response, Higginson Professor of History andof East Asian Languages and Civilizations PhilipA. Kuhn '54 rose to warn against using graduatestudent teaching positions to solve problems infinancial...
Forget the Asian crisis -- the greatest threat to Chile's stability is the arrest of its former dictator. Britain's detention of General Augusto Pinochet pending a Spanish extradition request has turned Santiago's prosperous streets into a battleground, and there was more bad news for the general on Wednesday: British legislators backed attempts to charge Pinochet in London should Spain's extradition request fail. That's a big headache for Chile's president, Eduardo Frei. "Roughly half the population is pro-Pinochet, with the other half fiercely opposed," says TIME Latin America bureau chief Tim Padgett. While few deny...
...Harvard Islamic Society and the Harvard-Radcliffe South Asian Association sponsored the speech...