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...They did more than stare. Over the next few years Chai, her younger brother, their Chinese father and Irish-American mother were insulted, harassed and ostracized. Their house was shot at from passing cars, and their pet dogs gunned down on the lawn. Her father ultimately resigned his academic job in frustration over narrow-minded colleagues. "It felt as though we were being punished for crimes we hadn't realized we had committed," Chai writes in Hapa Girl, her searing memoir of growing up half-Chinese in the American heartland. "There were many people who wanted my father to suffer...
...They’re not going to know what the hell you are talking about.8.FM: That’s if you really don’t like your neighbor. How did your parents respond to your puzzling?WS: When I started out they were not so pleased. My mother was a writer so she father was a personnel director for a printing company so he didn’t understand it at all! But they eventually came around to it once I became successful.9.FM: A lot of people at Harvard have pressure these days to be doctors, lawyers, I-bankers...
...behind-the-scenes artistic contributions, he recently won the Louise Donovan Award, the Office of the Art’s nod to an “unsung hero” of the arts.Wearing a black Rutgers engineering shirt, the hardest working man in Harvard showbiz explains that if his mother and sister had never dragged him to various theatre productions, HRDC may never have benefited from his work. “When I was in middle school, my mom and my sister were both involved in plays, and they got tired of me sitting at home, playing on the computer...
...areas not regarding race, we accept this fact without question. As a general rule, the standards for appropriate self-criticism are different from those for acceptable criticism of others. I may think that my mother is cruel, controlling, and manipulative—I might even say as much—but if you diss my family, it is still offensive. As John Lennon once quipped, “I can knock The Beatles, but don’t let Mick Jagger knock them...
...Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) faculty in July, is devising methods to apply the principles of the underwater animal’s superior lens system to man-made optics.“It is really stealing the principle from biology,” she says.Aizenberg, a 47-year-old mother of two who emigrated from Russia in 1991, comes here from Bell Laboratories at Lucent Technologies. She will become the McKay professor of materials science, and says the potential to further her multidisciplinary work is what is bringing her back to the academy.“As my research becomes...