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...little of everything, from heartbreak to hysterics. In the opening number, we are introduced to six Harvard students making a late night at the Kong. Each has a dark secret that is eventually revealed to the others through fortune cookies cooked up by Kong waiter and Harvard dropout Hei Yiu (Andy Olsen '02). But the road to fortune is a leisurely one, and there are frequent bus stops at the cities of Parody, Satire, and Random Joke. In one minute-long exchange, three of the students list their current assignments in an attempt to decide who has the hardest schedule...
Pforzheimer: Flaunts three house shields on the back, each with a frog perched on top. Pforz-hei-mer...get it? We all knew those Budweiser amphibians were desperate for work, but PfoHo? How tacky...
...word racism has degenerated to being a mere ritual term of abuse and self-pity, part of the Kabuki of manipulation. Any grownup knows there is racism in America. There is racism almost everywhere in the world. The Chinese refer to Africans as hei gwei, or "black devils." (They refer to whites, by the way, as "white devils.") The Chinese were used as virtual slaves in the American West during the 19th century. In Egypt (which many African Americans embrace as the founding mother of black civilization), even people with moderately dark skins refer to themselves as "white...
...myth." That image depicts them as a group of blinkered science-oriented achievers -- "the Asian in the M.I.T. sweatshirt," as Masamune puts it. "It's really frustrating to score over 1400 on your SATs and learn that society is telling you they've got you figured out," he says. Hei Wai Chan, 28, a Ph.D. candidate in electrical engineering at M.I.T. who plans a career in social work within the Asian-American community, agrees. "Maybe half of Asian-American students are in conflict over this...
...Americans were offered the same, and accepted. He made no such offer to the flustered Chinese, but used the only Chinese words he knew: "Kung Hei Fat Choy [Happy New Year]," even though that celebration will come in January. It broke up the Chinese. As they giggled wildly, the Aeroflot engineer, still smiling, added in English: "you bastards...