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...Wedding Banquet is slimmer, more anecdotal, but has the same theme: the sacrifices that old-fashioned parents and modern kids make for one another. Handsome, Taiwan-born Wai-tung (Winston Chao) is doing well in Manhattan real estate and has a loving lover, Simon (Mitchell Lichtenstein). But his parents back home -- the General (Sihung Lung) and Mrs. Gao (Ah-leh Gua) -- urgently want a grandchild. How do you arrange a marriage if your son is gay? Not so hard, if he doesn't tell you. Easier still, if he arranges it himself, after Simon suggests that Wai-tung...
...Wai Yin Leung '91 says that of the approximately 50 people she knows who have sought jobs through on-campus recruiting, only four have actually received offers...
...That image depicts them as a group of blinkered science-oriented achievers -- "the Asian in the M.I.T. sweatshirt," as Masamune puts it. "It's really frustrating to score over 1400 on your SATs and learn that society is telling you they've got you figured out," he says. Hei Wai Chan, 28, a Ph.D. candidate in electrical engineering at M.I.T. who plans a career in social work within the Asian-American community, agrees. "Maybe half of Asian-American students are in conflict over this...
...looked hard enough. Little more than a month after it had trumpeted an agreement to buy Investors Diversified Services, the main subsidiary of Alleghany Corp. and a major marketer of mutual funds and life insurance, American Express last week backed out of the deal The company was admitting, as Wai Street had been saying all along, that the price for IDS, some $1 billion in American Express stock or nearly three times Alleghany's book value, was too high American Express left open the possibility of a new agreement but only with "revised terms and conditions." Translation: Alleghany must...
...Claudia Wai. Reported by Dick Thompson/San Francisco and Lisa Towle/Boston