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...another speech, titled "Quest for Political Voice," the former Lieutenant Governor of Delaware S.B. (Shien-Bai) Woo proposed a plan to give the Chinese-American community more substantive political power...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CSA Hosts Conference | 10/13/1998 | See Source »

...particular, Woo said he thought Chinese Americans needed to unify their support behind one candidate per election. Fifty percent of Chinese-Americans tend to vote for a candidate in one party while the other half votes for a candidate in the other party...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CSA Hosts Conference | 10/13/1998 | See Source »

While yesterday's discussion was preliminary, Christoph J. Wolff'76, dean of the graduate school of arts and sciences (GSAS), said the increase in funding will help Harvard woo world-class graduate students...

Author: By Jason M. Goins, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Faculty Council Considers GSAS Aid Reforms | 9/24/1998 | See Source »

...versions of action painting. Their connections with traditional narrative and their concern for realistic representations of the natural world and the way human beings might plausibly behave in that world virtually vanished. Watching a Die Hard or Lethal Weapon sequel or anything by the Hong Kong action specialist John Woo, you entered a two-dimensional world in which what you mostly thought about was, as it were, the surface of the canvas--the tension and originality with which the director slapped, slathered or slashed his colors on it. Like their painterly progenitors, many of these filmmakers are craftsmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Abstractly Expressive | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

...doesn't just see it as a stepping-stone." The audience cared too. "It wasn't really awesome," said a young woman who waited outside for six hours in brutal heat to get into the show. "But it was more like, now I can say I saw him." Woo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: As for the Old Master... | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

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