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...rules and expectations, which students say complicate every intersection of romance and race.THE ASIAN FETISHRelationships between Asian women and white men seem particularly commonplace, students say. According to Le’s data, a Chinese, Japanese, or Vietnamese woman is more than twice as likely as her male ethnic counterpart to have a white spouse.Hovering over these relationships is the specter of the “Asian fetish,” Jean Yang ’08 says.By that, Yang refers to a supposed white-male fantasy based on the stereotype that Asian women are exotic, or delicate, or more...
...be—a tribe of perky people gushing—is a mistake. Harvard will always be on the unbearable side, because Harvard admits its students to be ambitious and to succeed, not to be happy. But the unbearable environment is glorious, because it is the counterpart to the atmosphere of achievement. The negatives must be accommodated. And take heart: someday, these trials will make you a much more interesting cocktail party guest. Lucy M. Caldwell ’09, a Crimson editorial editor, lives in Wigglesworth Hall...
...also a dandy. Senior netminder Ali Boe, in recent weeks, has displayed an impressive stubbornness to let her career come to a close. Excluding the frenetic first period against the Bears, Boe has allowed a mere four goals in her last 323 minutes and 59 seconds of action. Her counterpart, Wildcats junior Melissa Bourdon, leads the nation with a 1.06 goals against average.“We’re going to get what we always get from Ali Boe, which is consistency,” Stone said. “I don’t really know that much...
...agreement on how best to deal with Iran's nuclear ambitions, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice added her own personal touch to the diplomatic wrangling half a world away. Rice interrupted her travels Wednesday morning through Indonesia and Australia to place a call to her Russian counterpart, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in Moscow. A State Department official says they discussed how best to take "firm, meaningful action" to rein in Iran, which insists it has the right to enrich uranium for what it says are peaceful purposes. But another knowledgeable U.S. official goes further, asserting that Rice called Lavrov...
...With “God Lives in St. Petersburg,” author Tom Bissell, who also spoke with The Crimson, seems like a contemporary counterpart to this esteemed company, with his creation of a confection of intricately poignant stories about Americans drifting lost in Central Asia...