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Charles S. Woo '95, editor-in-chief of theHarvard Political Review, explains that manyAsian-Americans have declined to carve out ethnicpolitical identities because Asian-Americans havenot been able to come together as an effectivepolitical coalition...
Nonetheless, as they stepped up their search last week for ways to woo the angry middle class, Democrats and Republicans alike were forced to look beyond cuts in federal spending dedicated to welfare for the poor, most of whom are children. In contentious, closed-door meetings all last week, the Clinton Administration and lawmakers separately debated whether to target the much larger share of federal spending and tax subsidies that flow to corporations and upper-income Americans, mainly on the basis of political clout...
...nationally-televised speech at the midpoint of his presidency, President Clinton tonight set out to woo disenchanted swing voters with a hastily-assembled, $60 billion package of tax cuts and deductions aimed primarily at middle-income families with young children and education bills to pay. Clinton proposed a four-point "Middle Class Bill of Rights" for "hurt, frustrated" people strained by wages that haven't kept up with economic expansion. Under the plans first proposal, families earning up to $100,000 a year could deduct up to $10,000 a year in college and post-graduate tuition from their taxes...
...that kind of reasoning that scares house committees. Many fear they will be at a disadvantage when applying for the grant funds, according to North House committee chair Katherine A. Woo...
...faculty salaries offered by top U.S. universities, and has even started to lure some prominent non-Asians. To direct a new $4.5 million environmental-studies program, for instance, Hong Kong recruited Gary Heinke from the University of Toronto. "We're not shy," laughs Hong Kong university president Chia-Wei Woo, whose resume includes a stint as president of San Francisco State University. "When we see someone we want, we can be very sticky...