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Take, for example, Hong Kong-born Yat-Ming Judith Leung, valedictorian of the class of '98 at Nova High School in Davie, Fla. Leung, a poster child for the kind of diversity and achievement sought by colleges, earned a 4.0 GPA, taking 14 advanced-placement classes, and was accepted at Harvard, Yale and Stanford, with a generous aid package from each. By her calculation, Stanford's package was the best--a mix of loans and outright gifts. Her father earned just under $30,000 last year, and she felt her family couldn't afford to contribute as much as Yale...
...even as we pride ourselves on our exfoliating identities, our names seem ever more beside the point. The handover of Hong Kong to the Chinese, for example, was perhaps most significant as the disappearance of a culture of zany hybrids--Sir Run Run Shaw, Philemon Choi and Freedom Leung--into one where there are 4,000 Zheng Yangs in a single city, and Wangs and Zhengs alone account for 160 million people, or more than live in Britain, France and Spain combined. The 20th anniversary of Star Wars is the 20th anniversary of celebrating heroes called R2D2...
...offer the world "a porthole through which concerned observers . . . can view the significant period in Hong Kong history," one Hong Kong group last week launched an online weekly called The Voice of Democracy. Its mission: to provide a platform for criticism of the incoming government. Editor-in-Chief Eddy Leung says he knows that he and his colleagues could be arrested under Beijing's new mandates, but that's a risk they're willing to take to connect Hong Kong's 500,000 Internet users with the rest of the world. So, too, apparently are the producers of other controversial...
...Leung '97 helps the FBI apprehend three suspected kidnappers in Daytona Beach, Fla., during spring break, ending a four-day nationwide search for two young girls missing from Galesburg, Mich...
...Leung's actions were the subject of reports on national news outlets, and The Boston Globe recently profiled...