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Ideally, both Asians and non-Asians could react to "The Misanthropic Mr. Chu" without regard to the racial identity of its characters. Judging from the widespread negative reactions of Harvard's ethnic organizations to the strip, however, such a benign reading is unlikely. In general, political correctness exists to avoid offending minorities. The media must be made aware of the damage it inflicts when it eschews political correctness and indiscriminately links negative qualities to race...
...avoid yesterday's winds, which at times reached 13 miles per hour, Shi said he devised an ingenious plan. "I kept ducking behind the taller people, trying to run right behind them," he said...
Despite its attempts to avoid as much risk as possible in venture capital investing, Meyer says HMC understands it could lose significant amounts of money in these investments and is prepared to take these loses. These kind of loses would not be unprecedented, as the endowment lost $1.3 billion in the summer of 1998 in emerging-market and other risky investments...
...just in time to avoid being tarred as the Nike of corner cafes, Starbucks, the nation's largest gourmet-coffee company, caved last Friday, agreeing to launch a line of Fair Trade-Certified beans. The politically correct coffee is grown on small farm cooperatives rather than large plantations. It sells for a minimum of $1.26 per lb.--which goes directly to the farmers rather than the middlemen, who often pay growers less than 50[cents] per lb. The increase means that the farmers, who hand-pluck their beans and carry them down the mountain in 100-lb. sacks, can afford...
...hard to avoid conjuring in the mind alternate Elians, as if they were twins separated by different fates, one of them gone to grow up (fatherless) in America and the other returned to Cuba--and to all that may mean...