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...they are stereotypically viewed as “very un-masculine,” Lee says. He points out that few Asian men play for American professional sports teams. And in movies, he says, Asian men still only play two roles: the kung fu fighter and the angry store owner. Asian women, in contrast, are portrayed as having increasingly varied and prominent roles, Lee says.“It’s my goal to make the Asian man sexy again,” he jokes.Data on interracial marriage suggests that few Korean-American men cross ethnic lines?...
...Unfortunately for the owner of the Ivy League’s most idiosyncratic delivery, it gets lonely...
After his October 2005 arrest following charges of running a prostitution operation out of his Harvard Square salon, About Hair owner Duncan W. Purdy, 52, will be arraigned in court tomorrow morning on a separate charge of rape. Earlier this week, Duncan was indicted for allegedly raping a customer in March 2004. The customer, a then-19-year-old woman, reported to police, after learning of Purdy’s arrest on the sex-selling charges, that he touched her “inappropriately and raped her” during a scheduled massage two years ago, according to a Middlesex...
...Vice President Dick Cheney decided that Katharine Armstrong, owner of the land on which he accidentally shot Harry Whittington, was the best person to tell the press about the event [Feb. 27]. Cheney handpicked someone who had potentially serious liability issues to give the story to the media even before the President was informed. The disclosure that Cheney and his friends were hunting from their cars without proper licenses adds a smarmy exclamation point to another display of his arrogance and disregard for the law. Ed Vecchio Huber Heights, Ohio...
...North. In Seoul, the attempt by U.S. corporate raider Carl Icahn to get a seat on the board of tobacco company KT&G has, says Jang Hasung, dean of Korea University's business school, "reignited anti-foreign-investor sentiment." The sale of a controlling interest in Shin Corp., owner of Thailand's leading telecommunications company, to Temasek Holdings of Singapore has been one of the catalysts for the Bangkok demonstrations against Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, whose family controlled Shin Corp. In France, an effort by the Italian gas company Enel to acquire Groupe Suez appears to have been thwarted...