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...Chinese-American experience as stemming in part from her own childhood frustration with peers who insisted on seeing her? the daughter of Chinese immigrants in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois?as foreign, an outsider. That phenomenon, of course, persists today. Chang notes that when American Olympic figure skater Michelle Kwan lost a competition to a teammate, MSNBC's headline read: AMERICAN BEATS OUT KWAN...
...trade partner and donor and its closest ally, is as afraid of a nuclear-armed North as it is of refugees. Beijing was infuriated by the North's obstreperousness at the Beijing talks, which China had gone out on a limb to sponsor. South Korean Foreign Minister Yoon Young Kwan said Kim's nuclear declaration represented "a very serious matter that endangers peace on the Korean peninsula and stability in Northeast Asia...
...story begins with an elderly Toronto couple who spent 10 days in Hong Kong. Kwan Sui-chu, 78, and her husband began a visit to the city on Feb. 13 and stayed one night at the Metropole Hotel. Kwan almost certainly had a chance encounter there with a retired Chinese nephrologist named Liu Jianlun, who, it turns out, had SARS. After her return to Toronto on Feb. 23, Kwan passed the disease to members of her family, including her son Tse. At Scarborough Grace, he was placed in a corner bed of the E.R.'s observation ward. Next...
...advisory after three people who had recently been in Hong Kong and six others who'd been in close contact with them since their return were struck ill. The disease has continued to jump borders with terrifying rapidity: last Friday, medical officials in Toronto announced that a woman named Kwan Sui-chu had died in the city on March 5, shortly after returning from Hong Kong, and that five of her relatives?who had not been to Hong Kong recently?were also ill. One, Chi Kwai Tse, died on March...
...scornful of the anti-communist ideology from decades past, they feel a sentimental bond with Koreans on the other side of the barbed wire. Of course, there are plenty of South Koreans who still see the North as a threat. "We have gone too far," says Lee Dong Kwan, associate editor of the daily Dong-A Ilbo. And on Saturday, some 30,000 demonstrators rallied in Seoul to show support for the U.S. military presence in the South...