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...attended the game—which the Rockets won in overtime, and in which Yao did not have a great performance—with two friends of Chinese descent. Also in attendance were over a hundred students who had come with Harvard’s Chinese Student Association (CSA). It was a unique outing for the organization, and one that was mimicked by a dozen other Boston Chinese student groups...
...have an impact even at impermeable Harvard. Asian students have been a mainstay on campus for decades now, to the point that they are sometimes considered an “over-represented minority.” Indeed, nearly a sixth of Harvard undergrads are of Asian descent, and a good portion of those can claim Chinese heritage...
...eight weeks of gestation, when the embryo has not yet been differentiated as male or female. As obsessions go, this might not be one you would expect from a former high school football player from Boise, Idaho. But to him this stage represents a time of pure potential. The descent of the testicles in the male fetus is a moment to be regretted. He made peace with his own anatomy sufficiently to father an infant girl last October by Bjork, the Icelandic pop star. That child is guaranteed an interesting life...
Crooks’ calm posture and bright confidence were honed in theater and on the scholarship pageant circuit. At one point, she accidentally entered a pageant intended only for girls of Hispanic descent, the Reina de Fiesta pageant. “They let me stay anyway,” she says. “The whole thing was done in Spanish, and my Spanish at the time was terrible. And we all had to dance to mariachi music. It was so awkward...
...mail, “to locate and engage in intense cultural experiences as a Caucasian American of western European descent...