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This explains the difficulty Asian-American actors have had in trying to break through stereotypical roles like "Long Duck Dong" in Sixteen Candles. And when Asian-Americans aren't portrayed as geeky and insipid, they're cast as mysterious experts at Kung Fu...
...press reports allege Sliwa has yet to own up to all such misdeeds. Still, Sliwa says his honor is intact: "My reputation in New York was almost mythically heroic, and this is just a hard reality check." Hard indeed. He says his Angel wife Lisa launched a spinning, kung-fu kick at his face when he told her about his fabrications...
There was no shortage of winners as the Olympics loudspeakers began playing national anthems last week: Fu Mingxia, the poised Chinese diver who was not even born when El Loco began hitting home runs for Cuba; the Maldivian swimmer who became the first in his country's Olympic history not to finish last (in part because that position was already occupied by another Maldivian swimmer...
...member national team, from age 14 on they earn an average worker's salary, with bonuses for major victories. An Olympic gold medal brings 20,000 yuan, or about $3,700, equivalent to the average per capita income for a quarter-century. Says a prominent Chinese sports journalist: "Fu Mingxia is a money tree for her family." Still, that Olympic bonus is less than a fifth of what the Soviet Union offered athletes for gold at Seoul -- and about one-third of 1% of what American gymnast Mary Lou Retton earned from capitalist sources after her Olympic heyday...
...group, part of the school's Coalition forCivil Rights, held an overnight sit-in Clark'soffice to protest the lack of diversity in facultyhiring. The nine were third-year student CharisseCarney and second year students William Ansprach,Julie Fu, Jodi Grant, Derek Homore, Lucy Koh,Elizabeth Moreno, Jill Newman and Marie-LouiseRamsdale...