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For example, "Asian" is commonly used to describe all people whose roots are in Asia. Yet in this group, nationalities such as Korean, Japanese, Chinese and Vietnamese are each striving to assert their identity. For example, ancient rivalries between Korea and Japan; China and Japan and Vietnam have all carried...

Author: By Jacques H. Scharoun, | Title: People of Color? | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

The administration this month chose not to appeal a judge's decision upholding the union's victory. Harvard finally decided not to further distance workers from their employer, not to disrespect the majority's decision, not to embitter office relations, not to take advantage of any of the cheap dilatory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Free at Last | 11/16/1988 | See Source »

Even now, there are signs not of improvement but of worsening relations. How can any efforts we make to improve relations have a chance? U.S. support for anti-Ethiopian elements might lead to trouble for us, to individual sacrifice, but will not change our direction. The heritage of such a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Free Ourselves From Backwardness | 8/4/1986 | See Source »

Well, what could please Commissar Abramski more than a war in Central America? What better way to arm communists in the region, or to destabilize its fragile governments, than to create a war that is sure to destroy much industry and agriculture, to radicalize and embitter the peasantry and to...

Author: By John Ross, | Title: A Stupidity So Immense | 4/1/1986 | See Source »

Jackson's insistence on an end to run-off primaries for congressional, state and local offices is a pricklier problem. Under the runoff system, mostly in effect in the South, if no one gets more than 50% of the votes cast, the two top vote getters in a multicandidate field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Over the Top, Barely | 6/18/1984 | See Source »

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