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...case of Asian Americans, unkind regard is often accompanied, paradoxically, by a myth that they are a “model” minority that is not being victimized; consequently, events of violence and denigration are ignored as exceptional. Ironically, the result has been a pattern of sub-standard treatment that is as old as the 1854 California Supreme Court ruling of People v. Hall, which abnegated court testimony from Chinese Americans on grounds of their “inferiority” to whites, and as alive as the indefensible lenience recently shown to the white murderers of Vincent Chin...

Author: By Robin J. Tang, | Title: Asian or Just a Person Like You? | 4/26/2004 | See Source »

Ridker's first encounters with disease came early on; his family spent two years in New Delhi, where he made a painful and personal acquaintance with parasite after parasite. Before getting his medical degree from Harvard, he spent a year in sub-Saharan Africa, treating patients in Kenya, Zambia and Zimbabwe just as the AIDS epidemic was emerging. "My experiences overseas gave me the idea that you could use a very different toolbox to tackle the heart-disease problem," says Ridker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Ridker: The Inflammation Response | 4/26/2004 | See Source »

Though I’ve barely dipped my toe in the vast ocean of VES, I’m already finding a strong current of sub-art-house snobbery targeted towards anything with even the faintest odor of mainstream allure. One of the easier marks is the film critics of the four stars variety. I was recently involved in a discussion in a VES class when the name of Roger Ebert was dropped. Like a slab of chum in a pool of makos, the country’s leading film reviewer was quickly disparaged and disposed of. Though I can?...

Author: By Ben B. Chung and Ben Soskin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Does Roger Ebert Matter? | 4/23/2004 | See Source »

Said Levner, “Everyone relies so much on each other. It’s not like you can sub-in someone when you’re not feeling well. You really need everyone on the team…and then there’s this bond...

Author: By David H. Stearns, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: THE COMMISH: Stroking Below The Radar | 4/22/2004 | See Source »

...Harvard had to come up with something. The sailors taped an A on one skipper’s life jacket, an S on another, and another S on the third, each a “piece” of the puzzle. But while their creative insight may have been sub par, the fifth-ranked co-eds, led by skippers Cardwell Potts, Vince Porter and Clay Johnson, sailed well enough on a weekend of fickle weather to finish second...

Author: By Alexander C. Britell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wind Disappears As Co-Ed Sailors Take Second | 4/12/2004 | See Source »

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