Word: kenji
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reading was catalyzed by Rushdie, although he is not the focus of the evening," said reading organizer Kenji Yoshino '91, a Pegasus of the Advocate, which sponsored the reading...
...affiliation. Hannah Embree and her sister from Wellesley, both senior citzens, completed the entire course and earmarked their funds for the Boston-Cambridge Ministry for Higher Education and the United Church of Christ Peace Ministry. Eight-year-old Elan Schwarz and his pal ten-year-old Kenji Foster said they were attending in the "cause of world peace and disarmament" with their parents and teacher from the Charles River School...
...wave. Alternating the current in a set of magnets in the guideway changes their polarity and thus the way they interact with the magnets on the train. As a result, the train is alternately pushed and pulled along. Raising the frequency of the current speeds up the movement. Says Kenji Fujie, chief engineer of JR's maglev laboratory: "We can run it beyond 1,000 k.p.h. ((620 m.p.h.)), theoretically...
...stereotype of Asian Americans as narrow mathematical paragons is unfair, however, and inaccurate. Many are far from being liberal arts illiterates, according to a study that will be published this fall by Sociologists Ruben G. Rumbaut and Kenji Ima of San Diego State University. They found that in overall grade-point averages, virtually every Asian-American group outscored the city's white high school juniors and seniors. Many Asian-American students excel in the arts, from photography to music. New York City's famed Juilliard School has a student body estimated to be 25% Asian and Asian American. Juilliard President...
...rejecting both his heritage and mainstream America Tam attempts to become a cultural hero, leading disciples such as Kenji along the path to a new and rebellious racial identity. As Chin's drama unfolds, however, Tam's "Blackness" is exposed as a cowardly means of escape. He is nothing more than a pathetic "Chickencoop Chinaman," trapped by both America's prejudices and his own biases against his Asian roots...