Word: confucianism
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...Asian American Association] and the AAA [Admirers of Asians Association], the latter composed exclusively of a blocking group in Dunster and every male CS concentrator. We here at FM fear these two groups might merge into one, soon creating tons of beautiful half Asian children that love solid Confucian values almost as much as they love the snappin’ melodies of Coldplay.[1] The best way to ensure academic excellence is to demand it.[2] So THAT’S where they’ve been![3] Kirby Puckett. That’s who. And maybe Greg Ostertag...
...From Basho to Banana as his first step toward the laudable goal of a liberal education. Over the next four years, he will also sign up for The World in 1776, The Images of Alexander the Great, Revolution and Reaction: The Rise and Fall of the Russian Avant-Garde, Confucian Humanism: Self-Cultivation and Moral Community, and Dinosaurs and Their Relatives. These courses, claim the venerable Harvard College administrators, will liberalize an otherwise parochial course load...
...Yosano is able to be flexible because - unusually for a leading Japanese politician - he has no factional ties. He gets appointments the Confucian way: through merit. And his political contacts are not confined to the LDP; he plays go with opposition party president Ichiro Ozawa. As his plans become more front and center, his star seems to be on the rise. Yosano took second place to Aso in last September's elections for a new LDP leader. "Given the problems that Japan faces, people feel that there's a solid quality to Yosano, a trustworthiness that makes people feel confident...
...western film and fiction, Hong Kong is a fabulously implausible place of strong-jawed Caucasian protagonists and their sinewy Chinese sidekicks. They are pitted in urgent struggles against bloodless communists or mustachioed triads with a penchant for quoting Confucian maxims. Willowy Eurasian sirens in brocade skirts set honey traps at every turn, and the duplicitous locals care for nothing but share-trading and cognac. Great events - a devastating typhoon, a transfer of sovereignty - provide epoch-shifting denouements to stories of unsurpassed venality...
This rivalry is old. It’s even older than some of Harvard’s most famous internal rivalries, like the Crimson versus the Lampoon, the Hong Kong Restaurant Bar and Lounge versus 8,000 years of beautiful Confucian tradition, the Chickwich versus the food pyramid, the Harvard Voice versus Spare Change, Dorm Crew versus people who shit everywhere, the Isis Club versus True Love Revolution, and Lucy Caldwell versus journalism...