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...Ngoc Bich, a translator and lecturer specializing in Vietnamese literature. Many students said this was their first time being exposed to Vietnamese poetry and music. “It was just amazing to be able to hear poetry from a thousand years ago,” said Jeremy N. Tran ’09, last year’s president of the Vietnamese Association, “Vietnamese poetry isn’t boring. It’s quite sexual and talks a lot about desire and being drunk,” said Trieu...
...Sharing his own experience with dating, Lee admitted that he used to be shy with women until he was able to break out of the rigid Asian male stereotypes. “I had to be taught how to talk to women,” he said. Jeremy N. Tran ’09 said after the event that Lee made “some valid points,” but overall, but that most people were already aware of negative Asian male stereotypes. “At Harvard, it’s a little different. People in general think...
...news is threatening to weaken it further. This past week the dong jumped from 16,120 to the dollar to 18,500 on the black market as traders rushed to put their dong into dollars and gold. The currency swoon makes imports, from food to commodities, more expensive. Jocelyn Tran, whose Ho Chi Minh City company contracts with local factories to supply apparel to U.S. stores, says the price of Chinese-made yarn has jumped 15% this year. "Our factories are absorbing it by cutting out the profit margin," says Tran. Even though some factories have raised wages, she complains...
...clothing inspired by the eponymous Tokyo district. Student models appeared in everything from neon platform shoes to faux leather leggings. “It was a hodgepodge of clothes and things you would never think went together. But it was really fun,” said model Jeremy N. Tran ’09. This pairing of the unexpected was typical throughout the show. Sanby Lee ’08, the creative director of His/Hers, explored the relation of androgyny to clothing. Female models strutted down the runway in black suits and white collared shirts. At one point, a couple...
...also help train injured faces to move again. Rose Hong Tran, a Houston-based Hatha yoga instructor, worked with local physicians to develop her specialized yoga facial toning technique. Tran says her workshops have helped increase mobility in clients with partial facial paralysis and problems like crooked smiles. "Every time you're working with your facial muscles, you increase circulation to your face 10 times," says Tran, who has certified other instructors to use her technique throughout Texas and in Atlanta. "It helps sharpen your mind...