Word: chinatown
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...look to the chalkboard at the far end of the sushi bar that lists the daily specials: young yellowtail tuna, mozuku seaweed, minke whale. The words for whale hang there in much the same way that a pig head stares back at you from the window of a Chinatown butcher shop...
...shimmers with glitter spray, glitter powder, and roll-on body glitter. Of course, glitter isn’t her whole life. She’s also a member of the ballroom dance team, a Drug and Alcohol Peer Adviser, and a member of Phillips Brooks House’s Chinatown Afterschool Program. She recently declared a concentration in Biological Anthropology.But here in Mather Dining Hall, in between bites of mixed greens and red chili hummus, Liles is all twirler. She performs her signature move. It is called the layback, and she does it nearly every time she performs: She leans...
...Chen's adopted city of Kobe has tied its future to China. Since the mid-19th century, Kobe, like the Japanese cities of Yokohama and Nagasaki, has been home to a small Chinatown, a legacy of the Chinese sailors and merchants who flocked to its once thriving port. By the early 1900s, tens of thousands of Chinese were living in Japan, often running restaurants or traditional Chinese medicine shops. But life wasn't easy. When a killer earthquake leveled Tokyo in 1923, non-Japanese residents were unfairly blamed for poisoning the water supply. Japanese mobs killed thousands of ethnic Chinese...
...situation is complicated by the nature of Chinatown economies, which are built almost entirely on cash transactions, tremendously high savings rates and a tradition of financial secretiveness. Few Chinese-American workers in New York City's several Chinatowns will reveal how much they really make. At the same time, it is not uncommon to see waiters and dishwashers among other so called menial workers who are capable of paying for cars, plunking down large initial premiums for insurance policies or making sizable down payments on homes or apartments - in cash. The banks of Chinatown centered in Canal Street in Manhattan...
...hard to expect more from financially strapped campaigns, said Sheila Krumholz, of the Center For Responsive Politics. But given the implausibility of $1,000 contributions by dishwashers and cooks - at least to people outside Chinatown - she suggested that "ideally they would go beyond the letter of the law and not accept something so willingly that is dubious regardless of what these folks say." She added: "When you're delivering the fund raising job to a bevy of bundlers, you need to make sure the procedures are tight. It really is incumbent on the candidates, campaigns and political parties to bring...