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...UNDER COVER: Kenji Yoshino, a gay Asian-American law professor at Yale, is outraged by the way that people of minority cultures are encouraged, or ordered, to hide cultural trademarks such as cornrows or yarmulkes. PW reports that Random House has purchased a book called "Covering: An Assault on Assimilation" for "a very handsome six figures." The book grew out of a NYT story that Yoshino wrote. Random House plans to publish the book in late 2003 or early...
...immune to the violence that it associates with the U.S. It is the worst mass killing of schoolchildren in Japan's history, but it is only the latest in a series of knifing crimes (gun ownership is outlawed in Japan). "Schools were always regarded as sacred zones," says Yo Yoshino, a teacher who lives near the Ikeda school...
...worst mass killing of schoolchildren in Japan's history, but only the latest in a series of brutal crimes where a knife is often the weapon of choice (gun ownership is outlawed). "Schools were always regarded as sacred zones, but not anymore," says Yo Yoshino, who lives near the Ikeda school and tutored some of its pupils at an independent "cram" school...
...agree with your view that the heroes and icons of the century teach us how to live through their triumphs and follies. Those who are called heroes should be the people who teach us and move us even more when they lose than when they win. KOICHIRO YOSHINO Saitama, Japan...
Catherine I. Bekooy '91 is president, Rachel J. Cashdollar '91 vice-president and Kenji Yoshino '91 secretary of the Crimson Key Society...