Word: ethnical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said it is easier for sub-ethnic groups such as Chinese Americans to unify because of their common background and that the process should start on this level before attempting to unite the larger Asian American and then the American community...
...group of poets, performers and musicians gathered outside the Science Center yesterday to protest Columbus Day and to promote ethnic studies at Harvard University in an event called Syzygy...
Organizers also hoped the event would encourage a wide variety of ethnic groups to come together and push the administration for more diverse ethnic studies at Harvard...
...only 6% of the state's registered voters, they could be a deciding factor in a close race with low turnout--if they vote as they did in June's open primary, when Fong took 3 out of 4 Asian voters, many of them "crossover" Democrats motivated more by ethnic pride than ideology. "Asian Americans can only think of themselves as a swing vote in a very close election," says Bruce Cain, a political scientist at the University of California, Berkeley. "But this appears to be that kind of race--a race in which crossover voters could make the difference...
Tucci got those offers, and faced just that decision, in the wake of Big Night's modest box-office take. "It wasn't just food movies," he says, "though there were some of those, and it wasn't just ethnic stuff. I got comedies, dramas, melodramas, tragedies." But Tucci, finally sprung from the saturnine-villain roles (Billy Bathgate, Murder One) that both fed and trapped him, had his eye on a story he had been mulling for years. The idea became The Impostors, an $8.3 million opus (Big Night cost $4 million) that Tucci describes as "a little Heidegger...