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...University of Massachusetts at Boston, who also spoke at the forum, said that many of the criteria used to evaluate the success of Asian-Americans are misleading. Supposedly objective measures of success, such as median family income, scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and grades can give a mistaken impression of the true position of Asians, he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prof Redefines Asian Status | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

...very different from that of the Soviet Union. But if the citizens of our country believe that this nation does not exist under the blanket of the Big Lie, and that many of the most important issues facing our people are not openly and seriously discussed, they are sorely mistaken. We are told every day by the politicians, and the media how "free" we are. Unfortunately, we are not given the freedom to explore that assertion. We need a glasnost...

Author: By Bernard Sanders, | Title: Time for an American Glasnost | 11/28/1989 | See Source »

...spring of 1872, the naturalist John Muir was asleep in a small cabin in the Yosemite Valley. "At half past two o'clock," he wrote later, "I was awakened by a tremendous earthquake . . . the strange thrilling motion could not be mistaken, and I ran out of my cabin, both glad and frightened, shouting, 'A noble earthquake! A noble earthquake!' feeling sure I was going to learn something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: When the Earth Cracks Open | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

...aimed at the protesters, she told Academy voters, "You have stood firm and refused to be intimidated by a small band of Zionist hoodlums who have insulted Jews all over the world in their struggle against fascism and Nazism." Heard out of context, the phrase gave birth to a mistaken belief that Redgrave regarded all Jews as hoodlums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Vanessa Ascending | 10/9/1989 | See Source »

...still linger of 1972, when eight people (seven of them white) were murdered on a golf course by gun-toting black leftists. Virgin Islands Governor Alexander Farrelly, who stayed on St. Thomas, 37 miles away, insisted that reports of lawlessness were distorted and exaggerated. Witnesses, he said, may have mistaken looters for police and guardsmen because they were wearing stolen uniforms and driving hijacked vehicles. Farrelly delayed asking for help until it became clear that Washington was going to send troops whether he wanted them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anarchy In Paradise | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

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