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...motivated hate crimes extend beyond attacks against Japanese. Anti-Japanese sentiment becomes hate against Chinese Americans, Korean Americans, Filipinos and other ethnic groups. "Whatever animosity they have towards Asia affects all of us. The can't tell us apart," said Kimura, who is the president of the New York chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League...
Aramony's resignation seemed to satisfy local fund raisers -- for the moment. Jim Kercheville, vice president of communications for Mile High United Way in Denver, one of the chapters that withheld dues pending the review, called Aramony's decision to resign courageous. "His contributions are unparalleled, but it's a question of perceptions now. The best thing to do is move on quickly, so we can get on about the business of helping people in need." Even so, the Denver chapter will await the outcome of the internal review before submitting its annual dues...
...formatting of the interviews is painfully homogeonized and formulaic. Each woman claims a chapter, at the head of which, in true yearbook style, is a photograph of the writer. At the end is a comprehensive list of the writer's publications, akin to the roster of a good sorority member's extra curricular activities. And each interview closes with a saccharine epilogue on the value of each woman writer to American letters...
...regular stump speech extolling isolationism, protectionism and fiscal stinginess is seasoned with attacks on "boodling" Congressmen, upholstered think tanks cooking up cockeyed new programs, and softheaded Trilateralists who would bail out Chinese communist Deng Xiaoping, the "85-year-old chain-smoking communist dwarf" but let Macy's go into Chapter...
...chapter on the art of portraiture in the French classical garden, Scully shows how garden design and urban design are driven by similar ideological and cultural forces. He defines the gardens of Versailles as an instance of what he calls portraiture, the transferal of meaning to landscape. In the case of Versailles, this transferal involves the use of geometry to create a hierarchical and rational environment that mirrors both the social order and its head, the Sun-king...