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Harvard Dems debater Andrew C. Fong ’07 was skeptical of the Republicans’ arguments. “Has the world become a safer place since we invaded Iraq? Hell no!” he said...
...foreign film? Come to this Turkish comedy, a big hit in its native land and the story of two brothers, a warehouse full of medicine, and a robbery that turns disastrous. The director, Omer Vargi, has just produced a second feature, Under Construction. Turkish, in English subtitles. Free. Fong Auditorium, 110 Boylston Hall...
...they began formulating the idea for their book as college sophomores, Hsu at Harvard, Han at Boston College. In March 2001, The Crimson published Justin G. Fong ’03’s op-ed piece entitled “The Invasion.” He accused Asian American Harvard students of reinforcing Asian American stereotypes...
...Hawaii's Self-Starter Hawaii's Hiram Leong Fong [MILESTONES, Aug. 30] had a long political career that began in 1938, when he served in the House of Representatives for the Territory of Hawaii. When Hawaii became the U.S.'s 50th state on Aug. 21, 1959, Fong won a Senate seat. TIME described his background in an Aug. 10, 1959, article...
...Fong] will be the first person of Asian descent to sit in the upper house of Congress. A handsome, graying man, he is an independent Republican and a self-made millionaire whose immigrant father came from Kwangtung province to work in the Oahu cane fields for $12 a month. The seventh of eleven children, Fong decided as a small boy to lift himself out of poverty, worked his way through high school by selling newspapers, shining shoes and caddying ... The University of Hawaii was tough, but Hiram Fong got through in three years with honors, with a bewildering collection...