Word: asianness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...While Asian women have been increasingly featured in U.S. films and on TV, the Asian male remains mostly ignored. If at all represented, he is usually either weak, nerdy or a crazed ninja looking to shed innocent white blood. This film scores big in bringing to American audiences an Asian male worthy of adoration for his acting, physical presence and charisma. It also should be lauded for its sensitivity in showing a range of Asian faces--not just the exotic lotus blossom of a woman, but tall, short and skinny are all in this film. The supporting cast efforts...
...similarly inconvenienced. Ever since he got lost in Disney s Frontier Land when he was 8, Josh has had a fear of large crowds. But, that didn t stop FM from forcing him to drive to New York, in the middle of the night, with an orthodontically adorned Asian boy, to cover MTV s "So You Want to Be A VJ Contest." It seems that FM s crack team of personnel managers couldn t find a single other person capable of operating a manually focusing camera. Josh stood in line for over seven hours, amidst hoards of dirty, scary people...
...early admits represented a more ethnically diverse group, with African-American students comprising 7.7 percent, up from 5.9 percent last year, and Latino students rising from 6.3 to 7.1 percent. Asian-American and Native American admits both dropped slightly...
Agarwal, who served as secretary general for Harvard National Model United Nations and founded the South Asian Studies Initiative, is looking forward to earning a degree in development studies...
Meanwhile, cash has been piling up in money-market funds--$37 billion in October, the most since the Asian contagion--and flows into stock funds have been tepid. Y2K worrywarts, it seems, are hoarding more than bottled water and canned food. How should you invest? If Cleland is right, pent-up demand will lift everything, and popular tech stocks will get more popular. The traditional approach is through beaten-up small stocks, which may be coming into favor anyway. Salomon Smith Barney likes beaten-up big stocks, including Fluor, H&R Block and Hasbro. You've got choices. The first...