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Timothy P. Yu
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Hyphenation Begets Tokenism
W hen I was a kid, my ethnicity--I was born in the United States to Chinese parents--made me "Chinese." Later,
Fighting for Democracy
M artin Lee has one of the world's most thankless jobs: crusading for democracy in Hong Kong. The 57-year-old lawyer
Doubting the Death Penalty
T here was a time when capital punishment was a legitimate issue in national politics. The debate could be found
Welfare Reform for the Rich
L ast Friday, Texas Senator Phil Gramm became the first Republican officially to throw his hat into the Presidential ring.
Covering Homophobia
L ast Friday, Federal civil-rights mediators descended on the town of Ovett, Mississippi to take on their first gay-harassment case.
Clinton's Reluctant Donkey
A t the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Seattle, Bill Clinton welcomed Asian heads of state in down-home style. The
Sharing in the Kennedy Mystique
T oday is the 30th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy '40. Expect to hear this question a
Fear and Cloning
P erhaps you missed it in the crunch of midterms, but the Brave New World arrived a few weeks ago.
Resume-itis and the Summer Job Crisis
W hy did I come to Harvard? It's a question, I suppose, whose answer I should know by now. And
Honor Societies May Merge
Members of the Harvard and Radcliffe chapters of Phi Beta Kappa met this week to discuss the possible merger of