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...CHINAMEN are made, not born, my dear," exclaims Tam Lum, the protagonist of Frank Chin's The Chickencoop Chinaman. Chin's drama, Harvard's first Asian American theatrical production, explores this angry youth's problemmatic quest for cultural identity...

Author: By Lisa R. Eskow, | Title: Harvard Theater | 4/16/1987 | See Source »

...Tam Lum (Hyunjune Seung) is a Chinese American filmmaker who evades his Asian roots yet also refuses to assimilate into mainstream American culture. Instead, Tam strives to establish a Black American identity. He adopts an urban Black speech pattern, gives "high fives" rather than shaking hands, and chooses as his idol a Black boxer named Ovaltine...

Author: By Lisa R. Eskow, | Title: Harvard Theater | 4/16/1987 | See Source »

News Desks: Suzanne Davis, Frances Fiorino, Tam Martinides Gray, Susan Lynd, David Richardson, Diana Tollerson, Jean R. White, Arturo Yaez, Jacalyn McConnell, Pamela H. Thompson, Ann Drury Wellford Administration: Emily Friedrich, Linda D. Vartoogian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Masthead May 12, 1986 Vol. 127 No. 19 | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

...when the ministers assembled at Geneva's Intercontinental Hotel last week for their regular semiannual meeting, several wanted to slash prices in order to attract customers. Oil Minister Tam David-West of Nigeria, whose country has foreign debts of at least $22 billion and depends on oil for 95% of its export earnings, threatened to match North Sea competitors "barrel by barrel and cent by cent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spoiling for an Oil-Price War | 12/23/1985 | See Source »

...became a net importer as farmers abandoned the land for the promise of lucrative jobs in the oil industry. As a result, shortages of basic commodities quickly developed. The Shagari regime's tolerance of corruption only added to the country's woes. In 1983 alone, according to Oil Minister Tam David-West, $1 billion in petroleum was secretly diverted from state oil terminals to foreign tankers, with Nigerian businessmen and politicians taking the profits. Some reports say $1 million a day was skimmed from the public treasury. Transport Minister Dikko reportedly amassed a $1 billion fortune, much of it outside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nigeria Triumph of the Troublemaker | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

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