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Unfortunately for the Asian American demographic in the United States, there exist various myths concerning its behavioral and general attitudes towards political involvement. One crude stereotype has its origins in the prevalent East Asian practices of gift-giving and “red-envelope?? bribery that accompany any Eastern courtship of political power; Asians, so the image goes, are often self-serving operators less interested in political due process than in buying out vested interests through whatever means possible...

Author: By N. KATHY Lin | Title: Crooked Politics | 9/26/2007 | See Source »

...talk before a crowd of 200 in Harvard Law School’s Ames Courtroom Friday, Flynt emphasized the need to “push the envelope?? on the First Amendment, saying that he had spent his life fighting in “the trenches” and “had taken a bullet for free speech...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Flynt Faces Rowdy Law Crowd | 4/24/2006 | See Source »

...women came out with poetry books, they never got fair treatment,” she said. “They were called over-emotional.” Although she sent in several poems to be considered for the book, she was “too afraid to open to envelope?? she received in return, and her poems have never appeared in print. “When I opened [the envelope] 20 years later, they were asking my permission to publish,” she laughed.Now that she has given over leadership of the store, she said she wants...

Author: By Shifra B. Mincer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Poetry Shop Survives, Even as Owner Departs | 4/4/2006 | See Source »

Although she sent in several poems to be considered for the book, she was “too afraid to open to envelope?? she received in return, and her poems have never appeared in print...

Author: By Shifra B. Mincer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Poetry Shop Survives, Even as Owner Departs | 4/3/2006 | See Source »

Admissions decisions are commonly mailed to applicants on March 31. Savvy high schoolers have been trained to look for the “thick envelope??: the large package presumably filled with the posters, housing forms, and other materials sent out to accepted students. It’s the first time a university makes its pitch to admitted students, and many schools look to woo with glossy fliers and full-color pamphlets...

Author: By Michael M. Grynbaum, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: For Harvard, Luring Students Is All in the Brand | 11/15/2005 | See Source »

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