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...think political correctness has to give into such "racial reasoning," however. For example, I don't think that Amy Tan's books are the be-all, end-all of literature just because we're both Chinese-American. If "racial reasoning" is really part of political correctness, then it doesn't stop the degradation of all human dignity as it purports to do. Believers in political correctness would do well to enact Cornel West's prescription for improving the current political debate in this country: replacing racial reasoning with "moral reasoning." That is, Americans must resist the vilification or deification...

Author: By Jia-rui Chong, | Title: Understanding Political Correctness | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

...University didn't receive it until March of this year, three months after officials began investigating the club. At that time, former club president Steven Chick delivered a check to Harvard for $423,000, according to current club President Aaron Tan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHILE YOU WERE AWAY | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

When the University learned of the missing donation, officials attempted to contact Chick but were unable to reach him for several weeks, Tan said. In late January 1998, they notified the club's executive committee of the missing donation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHILE YOU WERE AWAY | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

...April 18, the club held official elections which placed Tan in the top spot and made Georgia Bush treasurer. Eighty members voted in the election, according to the club newsletter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHILE YOU WERE AWAY | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

...strikes my legal notepad. August has slipped in like a lover. Every once in a while I turn toward the window and see, over my left shoulder, a tall pine tree that has split into two trunks at its base. The dead lower branches have been severed, leaving large tan coins on the bark. But the tree flourishes near the top in an array of green fans that rise and fall like a queen's hand. All shades of green are displayed, many so subtle they have no names. Though I have looked at this tree for years, the sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Not Observing Nature | 8/24/1998 | See Source »

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