Word: successful
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Glazer's comments suggest that it is enough that some Asian-Americans enjoy highly visible success in the U.S. It is easy to draw from the growing numbers of Asian-American students, family businesses and professionals, as Glazer does, that "The fact is that the public concern in this country with minority problems is not with minorities that don't make problems...
...vast numbers of Asian-Americans who do not come to America with strong college educations and for their descendents, the miracle of "success" comes with familiar, brutal infrequency. And finally, this way of thinking ignores whatever cultural legacies remain unique to Asian-Americans--what some have labelled orthodoxy, passivity or "oriental" foreignness--and what they provoke from mainstream America...
Asian-Americans should not be classed with other minority groups in affirmative action programs because of the relatively high degree of success they have already achieved in the professional world, a Harvard professor told an audience of about 200 people in Emerson Hall yesterday...
...Professor Peter N. Kiang '80 of the University of Massachusetts at Boston, who also spoke at the forum, said that many of the criteria used to evaluate the success of Asian-Americans are misleading. Supposedly objective measures of success, such as median family income, scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and grades can give a mistaken impression of the true position of Asians, he said...
While the Crimson divers were showing that they should be capable of filling a huge gap on the Harvard squad, junior Greg Tull proved last night that he is a more than adequate replacement for freestylist Keith Kaplan, who graduated last spring. Tull continued the Crimson's success in freestyle, barely edging out a tight field in both the 50- and 100-yd. events...