Word: speaker
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...often from affirmative-action policies). Many Korean, Chinese and Vietnamese immigrants arrive in America from societies just as violent, environments just as depressed, as any Hispanic or African-American does. Surely, it is harder to learn English as a first-or second-generation Asian-American than a native Spanish speaker. If the SATs are culturally biased, such tests should appear doubly opaque to Asian-Americans. And yet, the University of California at Berkeley sets quotas to keep the Asian student body below 30 percent, while Asian-Americans make up more than 20 percent of Harvard's own student population...
...credit ethnic groups for spreading awareness of their cultures and promoting political agendas. But it is a dangerous pursuit. Last year I attended that Asian American Association's Food Fest. After we ate our food, a speaker addressed the Asian-American students in the room about their lack of power, their under-representation and their need for solidarity. I felt alienated. I'm sure that what the speaker said was true, but I paid $5 to eat Asian food, not to be told that the Asian-American students in the room should band together against the forces of the white...
Imtiyaz Hussein, a member of MASALA--a South Asian gay and lesbian group--was another speaker...
...President says fast track "is not dead." But it ain't exactly living. Clinton stayed up until the wee small hours on Sunday but still had to concede defeat after House Speaker Newt Gingrich informed him they were about six votes short...
...Speaker of the House Thomas M.Finneran, who opposed the bill, acknowledged that he and other representatives have changed their positions on the emotional issue...