Word: fong
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...family history, leads a program for the Chinese Culture Foundation, which takes groups of Chinese-American youths back to their ancestral villages each summer after they have researched family and archival records in the U.S. "Now I feel proud of who I am," said 25-year-old Julia Fong, who met her great-grandmother, now 99, in Guangdong province. "She was feisty; she had no teeth and a wonderful smile...
California Republican Senate challenger MATT FONG (1) alienated two different groups of potential supporters, first by giving money to a religious anti-gay group and then by signing a pledge for the gay Log Cabin Republicans. Such waffling. Who does he think he is, the President...
Meanwhile, Aditi Bagchi '99, political co-chair of the Asian American Association (AAA), said that although some Asian Americans may be disappointed with Republican Matt Fong's loss in California, she is pleased that "the party and the candidates who are doing the most to advance civil rights and social justice in the United States are starting to gain lost ground...
...Gray Davis, a Democrat, defeated the Republican candidate for governor in California, State Attorney General Dan Lungren. In the state's Senate race, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) beat another GOP hopeful, State Treasurer Matt Fong...
...holds the White House. "This was the Republicans? election to lose," says TIME Washington correspondent Jay Branegan, "and it appears they have." Heading up the GOP casualties: outspoken New York Senator Al D?Amato, unseated by Rep. Chuck Schumer despite spending a record-breaking $22 million; California challenger Matt Fong, who failed to oust Sen. Barbara Boxer; and in North Carolina, the ultraconservative Lauch Faircloth, who lost out to John Edwards in a bellwether race that Democrats were watching closely. Few will doubt that they succeeded beyond their wildest dreams...