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...race.THE ASIAN FETISHRelationships between Asian women and white men seem particularly commonplace, students say. According to Le’s data, a Chinese, Japanese, or Vietnamese woman is more than twice as likely as her male ethnic counterpart to have a white spouse.Hovering over these relationships is the specter of the “Asian fetish,” Jean Yang ’08 says.By that, Yang refers to a supposed white-male fantasy based on the stereotype that Asian women are exotic, or delicate, or more passive than females of other races.Yang, who is Chinese American, says...
...Senate and the House of Representatives, which has indicated that it won’t be considering budget resolutions until two weeks from now, according to Day. Though Kennedy, Menendez, and Collins’s amendment failed in the Senate this week, another amendment proposed by Senator Arlen Specter (R-Penn.) and co-sponsored by 22 senators to increase funding by $7 billion for health, education and training, and low-income programs passed in the Senate yesterday in a 73-27 vote. —Staff writer Claire M. Guehenno can be reached at guehenno@fas.harvard.edu...
...electronics and materials. It too will be a larger ship than its predecessor, big enough to carry all four astronauts down to the surface while the mother ship idles empty in lunar orbit. That not only gets the most bang for the exploratory buck but also eliminates the lonely specter of the single astronaut who used to be left to mind the orbiter while the others went prospecting below...
...market of the late '90s, when a handful of big utilities, Enron among them, were able to dominate, sending prices skyward? Kroes admitted last month that high industry concentration and feeble cross-border competition added up to "a rather gloomy picture." Consumer groups put that view more sharply. The specter of further consolidation among Europe's utilities "can only reinforce our worries regarding the actual level of competition in the market," says Dominique Forest, economic adviser to beuc, the Brussels-based European consumers' organization. Forest thinks the Commission should be "more proactive" in preventing market dominance. Unveiling an evaluation report...
...Buckley Jr., as close to a conservative icon as America has, recently wrote that "one can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed." George F. Will has been a moderate skeptic throughout. Neoconservative scholar Francis Fukuyama has just produced a book renouncing his previous support. The specter of Iraq teetering closer to civil war and disintegration has forced a reckoning...