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...Kong -- Aged Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, who finally made an official appearance in Shanghai last week after being out of the public eye for almost a year, is the focus of much silly gossip over what seems to be a battle between him and rival Communist Party elder Chen Yun to see who can maintain his faculties longer. A source close to Deng's inner circle tells this story: the 89-year-old Deng can no longer write but can walk 50 steps; the 88-year- old Chen can write but can walk only 30 steps. Says the source: "Deng...
...Grace Yun, director of the New York City-based Inter-Relations Collaborative, describes this role-model "myth" as a "source of enormous concern." She deplores the idea that Asian Americans don't have any problems: "Thirty-six percent of the Vietnamese-American community in 1990 was below the poverty line. You see computers being advertised by little Asian geniuses. This is very damaging. One of the devastating by-products is anti-Asian violence...
...Conrad Yun...
...Yun and many other members of the council,citing a dearth of women in the world of financeoutside the University, say they feel many womenare alienated by the group's focus on fiscalmatters. This semester 16 of the 17 members on thecommittee...
...spend hours and hours together in a smallcramped room, banging out deals between people,have heated debates, and when you've been throughsuch an ordeal, you feel like you've accomplishedsomething and you feel bonded," says Yun. "I'vemade some good friends through the financecommittee...