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...term Asian American covers a variety of national, cultural and religious heritages. In only two decades Asian Americans have become the fastest-growing U.S. minority, numbering more than 5 million, or about 2% of the population; in 1960 the figures were 891,000 and 0.5%. Then in 1965 a new immigration law did away with exclusionary quotas. That brought a surge of largely middle- class Asian professionals - doctors, engineers and academics from Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, India and the Philippines - seeking economic opportunity. In 1975, after the end of the Viet Nam War, 130,000 refugees, mostly from...
Other critics complain that NASA has become obsessed with long-term planning. "I think getting the shuttle flying and getting a space station program under way are goals enough for now," says John Logsdon, director of George Washington University's science and public policy program. "We should get on with the program," says James French, who left his job as project director at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for a position in industry. "I got out because there were too many reports and not enough flying...
...back of their minds that future generations were listening in, it might have a salutary effect on the present. Had the judgment of history been hovering over their shoulders, the architects of the Iran- contra affair, for example, might have reflected a moment longer on the long- term implications of their actions. Indeed, the dulling of our historical sense could be one reason that the U.S. needs so many special prosecutors these days...
...figured that if there could be a representative for upscale conservatives, then it was time for Cambridge to have a city councillor for "downscale progressives," a term he uses to describe the liberal blue-collar ethnic consitutency he hopes to mobilize...
...them by the communities we serve. The accidents which have befallen Keylatch and Inner City Outreach are just that, accidents; they do not invalidate the work either committee has done or continues to do. In no way do they affect the work of PBH's other committees, summer of term-time. The Crimson's reporting on the incidents has been both irresponsible and inflammatory; if it continues it could be damaging to individual committees and PBH as a whole. The Crimson should concern itself more with ensuring its reporters follow basic journalistic rules and uphold its lagging standards. PBHA should...