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Call me a cynic. But if our backgrounds can make us look unique and "ethnic" to elite professional schools or high-powered recruiters looking to build diverse groups or assuage white guilt, we should milk them for all they're worth. As a Filipino-American, if I have to dance the tinikling or scarf down lechon to advance my career, I'll do it gladly...

Author: By David B. Lat, | Title: Speak No Evil | 11/15/1994 | See Source »

Sixteen years later, I'm still a wishful thinker. I always look on the bright side, probably because I am deeply anxious about the possibility that I'll err on the low side and someone will call me a cynic. Call me a cynic...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, | Title: Colgate Dreaming | 10/14/1994 | See Source »

...Call me a cynic, but I'm not so sure that any of you are the people to be leading the council in a new direction," said David V. Bonfili '96. "It's kind of like the skipper of the Exxon Valdez standing before us and saying that he's the environment's last best hope...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Races for Council Offices Heating Up | 10/13/1994 | See Source »

...people were talking about ever, we could have our best season ever, and how we could win the league, but I wasn't one of them," she says. "Call me the enternal cynic, but that just wasn't realistic--we knew we had way too many defensive problems--especially pitching--to do something like that...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, | Title: Softballers Approach Season With Realism | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

Mark one up for the "eternal cynic...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, | Title: Softballers Approach Season With Realism | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

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