Word: asianization
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...that seems much more an Asian precept than a Hollywood one. (Which suggests that the U.S. remake Universal Pictures was planning is due for a vigorous rewrite.) It's also worlds removed from what happened in Blacksburg. That was closer to a standard American revenge scenario, where the hero takes violent action against those he thinks wronged him. (Death Wish, anyone?) And don't forget that the weapon of choice in Oldboy was a hammer, which no one planning a mass murder would pack in his arsenal...
...Harvard’s inaugural advising week wraps up, concentration-hopping freshmen may have noticed a trend among departments starving for concentrators (and attention). In fact, with East Asian Studies doling out sushi, Computer Sciences offering ice cream, and various concentrations stuffing prospects with stuffed-crust pizza, it’s pretty obvious that intellectual curiosity wasn’t the only thing these desperate departments were catering to. Given the fixation with food, FM’s nutrition experts created a concentration-guide pyramid to help students make healthy choices. Chosen sparingly—Endangered concentrations (where fats, oils...
...country where untold numbers of citizens seem eager to travel, work and live in the United States, many Koreans were dumbfounded when they discovered this morning that the "Asian" campus killer was in fact a 23-year-old South Korean citizen. "I was shocked," says Hong, Sung Pyo, 65, a textile executive in Seoul. "We don't expect Koreans to shoot people, so we feel very ashamed and also worried." Most important, he adds, "we don't want Americans to think all Koreans are this...
...Campus security, meanwhile, offered Giovanni protection. But the poet said, "He didn't scare me." She learned about the shootings on Monday, while flying back from the West coast. When she first learned the suspect was an Asian male, she said, "In the front of my mind, I knew...
...Campus security, meanwhile, offered Giovanni protection. But the poet said, "He didn't scare me. "She learned about the shootings on Monday, while flying back from the West coast. When she first learned the suspect was an Asian male, she said, "In the front of my mind, I knew...