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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Asians in the U.S. are immigrants, many from countries with checkered democratic traditions; most push their kids to become doctors and engineers, not lawmakers. Many saw the 1996 campaign-finance scandal as a Yellow Peril witch-hunt. One Indian aspirant for a House seat in Indiana, R. Nag Nagarajan, lost in the spring primary mainly because, a local Democratic official said, "his name conjures up some Middle East monster." When Lim's wife Grace approached a potential supporter at an Oregon county fair in August, the man told her, "I won't vote for a foreigner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Place at the Table | 10/12/1998 | See Source »

...RELIGION, March 24]. The problem is, you cannot prove it until you get there. Wouldn't newsprint, time and effort be better spent on real problems in the real world affecting real people, instead of on sterile, metaphysical debates that could go on endlessly without reaching definitive conclusions? SAMEER NAGARAJAN Chindwara, India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 28, 1997 | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

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