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...change," says Blong Moua, a Hmong job-placement counselor. The change has already started. Though 40% of Hmong are unemployed, nearly 90% of Hmong students graduate from high school--the same rate as among their white counterparts. "I don't know how much time it will take," says Peter Yang, who heads the Hmong Mutual Association. "But a Hmong can become mayor of Wausau...
Sometimes, children can even add to the financial resources of a house, as infant Alana Yang, daughter of tutors Malia Preble and Scott H. Yang '87, once did at a Kirkland House Dutch Auction...
...North Korean television showed the younger Kim seated at a dais with other dignitaries as a military band played a patriotic song. "The revolutionary cause pioneered by President Kim Il Sung is now being successfully carried forward under the wise guidance of the great leader, Comrade Kim Jong Il," Yang Hyong Sop, North Korea's parliament speaker, said during the service. The uncharismatic and inarticulate Kim Jong Il's role had been unclear since the demise of his forceful father -- the only leader North Korea had ever known...
Other new members of the Alpha Chapter includeJoel L. Derfner '95, Nicholas B. Kurzon '95, DeanC. Yang '95, Jeb G. Miller '95, Christopher Exner'95, Fariborz Fariborz '95, Gregg A. Hurwitz '95,Salil P. Vadham '95 and Jason...
...earlier stage works. The title song, for example, is a syncopated chorus that could have come straight from Broadway, while A Sermon on Romance is a foot-stomping gospel shout. Your Honor My Client He's a Young Black Man, sung by the Vietnamese lawyer (the dynamic Welly Yang), has an almost rap-like ferocity that contrasts poignantly with a touching number like Consuelo's Dream, sung by the Salvadoran immigrant (Sophia Salguero). Adams has long shown a fondness for pop music (Nixon had a fox-trot), and here his fascination with the wellsprings of American musical expression has resulted...