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...Like the sense of Chinese mystery in F.O.B., my first play, was derived largely from Chinese-American writers, from Frank Chin and Maxine Hong Kingston, not so much [from the fact] that when I was little, my grandmother told me the story of so-and so. There are simplistic assumptions people make like that when actually the reality is so much more complicated. I can learn about culture through Kingston, through Soyinka...
...took in it on the chin against RPI," Body said. "But the loss has just wetted our whistles even more. We don't like the taste of losing, and if we fire on all cylinders, there isn't a team that can beat...
...WHITE HOUSE STAFF FILED INTO THE EAST Room last Friday at 5 p.m. for what had been regarded internally as a badly needed "pep rally." Chief of staff Mack McLarty opened with some keep-your-chin-up remarks. Then came some encouraging words from Tipper Gore and a circumspect comment from Hillary Rodham Clinton. "It's just the first week," she said. Al Gore spoke next, making a joke about his dancing ability. The mood grew lighthearted, reminding several in the audience of what one called "the whole campaign bus-tour thing...
...even as these problems persist, Renee Tajima '80, the Japanese-American director of a documentary about the Chin murder, warns that Asian-Americans have become increasingly insular, ignoring the communities most likely to encounter such prejudice...
...these wonderful features compete for attention against one another--with no one or two taking precedence over the others. There are those squinty little eyes, all baggy from the rigors of the campaign and too many nights up late jamming on "Arsenio." There's that Leno-esque chin, those pinched Bubba cheeks, the little snubbed nose and that tousled mass of gray hair that just seems to cry out for Grecian formula. Just where do you start with Bill Clinton...