Word: hwang
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ingratiating comedy-drama about a gay Taiwanese man in New York City who gets married to please his parents -- has grossed $1 million in its first month of specialized release. This week the Toronto Film Festival opens with M. Butterfly, David Cronenberg's film of the David Henry Hwang play about a tryst between a French diplomat (Jeremy Irons) and a Chinese man (John Lone) whom he believes to be a woman; it opens commercially Oct. 1. This Wednesday, Wayne Wang's lovely The Joy Luck Club, a fourfold Terms of Endearment based on Amy Tan's best-selling novel...
...Haewon Hwang '95 co-president of AAA, says she does not believe being female has an impact on achieving a position of leadership in any of the Asian campus organizations. "Just by looking around at the sister organizations [of AAA], the majority of executive positions are filled by women," she says...
Some efforts to float new issues do fail. In May, Joan R. Cheng '95 and Haewon Hwang '95, the two co-presidents of the Asian American Association, questioned the ethnic sensitivity of Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III, campus race-relations czar...
...issue never received a full hashing-out on the editorial pages of campus publications, primarily because representatives of at least four Asian student groups disagreed with the AAA leaders. Besides Cheng and Hwang leveled the insensitivity charge during exam period, a political doldrum...
What's worse, however, is that Joan Cheng '95 and Haewon Hwang '95, in their zealous attempt to harsh on Epps, diverted attention from their more important (and accurate) allegation: that Harvard handles race relations poorly...