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...even Ezra admits a few token doubts. "Hardball is an inconsistent game," he said. "Anyone on a good streak could beat anybody else...
...need or desire for an Ethnic Studies program or department, lists only two courses which relate to Asian American Studies. These two courses, to be taught by a visiting professor, were postponed until the '93-94 academic year, and no move was made to replace them. Hence, the token courses offered were taken away, by chance, more or less, and there were no Asian American Studies courses offered for the '92-93 academic year--a concrete program would have prevented this...
...imagine Cambridge not having something like this process," Green said. By the same token she added that she felt the fact not many new people came out to speak today means that people are happy with the manager...
...count the number of times people have tried to dissuade me from attempting to become a lawyer. Do you, they asked, really want to spend the rest of your life fighting stereotypes about passive Asians to get your cases? Do you really want to be some law firm's token Asian? I have friends who were pre-law, but who shied away from a profession where the quiet Asian "model minority" stereotype is a decided disadvantage. I have others who simply think it is out of their reach. These are the people who benefit from affirmative action mailings...
Providing, that is, that AT&T could ignore the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The country depicts itself as a British-style parliamentary democracy with regular elections, but in practice the ruling People's Action Party, which has held power since home rule in 1959, tolerates only token opposition, and the government owns the TV stations and indirectly controls the press...