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...Born William Young in northern Queensland in 1943, Yang grew up in Dimbulah, a tiny tobacco-farming town, with no connection to his Chinese heritage. His grandparents emigrated from China in the 1880s, and his family was completely assimilated - he and his siblings spoke only English. At 6, after a white schoolmate called him "Ching Chong Chinaman," Yang went home upset and asked his mother if he was Chinese. She gravely told him yes. "I knew in that instant," Yang writes on his website, "that being Chinese was a terrible curse...
...started searching for his lost Chinese ancestry by researching his immediate family and the history of the Chinese in Australia, and in 1983 he changed his surname from Young to Yang in a symbolic reclamation of his identity. "I described it as a kind of coming out as Chinese," he says. "It was a big thing for me to embrace." His first trip to China was in 1989. "The people welcomed me - they said, 'You've come back, you've come back home.' It was incredibly meaningful and moving...
...five folks trying out the game at MTV headquarters were nervous too, though they had varied musical credentials. Christopher Porterfield, TIME writer and editor emeritus, had played jazz in college and, as a young TIME staffer in 1964, traveled with the Beatles on their first American tour. He played bass. On drums was Leo Sacks, a Grammy-nominated music producer of vintage R&B who is making a documentary on the New Orleans gospel icon Raymond Myles. TIME writer Gilbert Cruz, the only participant who knew his way around the Rock Band platform, took lead guitar. The vocals were shared...
...6-3.However, this was ultimately a team victory for Harvard. Cao and Tachibana showed that they could fill the shoes of graduates Beier Ko and Laura Peterzan, the top two players in the Crimson’s lineup last season. This year’s team is a young one, with four freshmen, four sophomores, two juniors, and no seniors. But in the mind of both Tachibana and Harvard coach Traci Green, this characteristic will not hurt the team’s competitiveness. “A young team is a good thing,” Tachibana said...
...fighting off French communists during his time in postwar France as an Army MP - just one of the sticky situations he would get into as a young man: "I could see that their sticks were sharpened at the ends. Pig sticks, used for jabbing at pigs to encourage them toward the pen. Then I remembered that I was armed as well: wrapped around each leg of my MP pants ... was a bicycle chain ... I reached down and unhooked the chains. I started whirling them over my head...