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Stratman's parents were unimpressed. Stephen recalls, "We might as well have been giving a tour of a dentist's waiting room." Then, two days before departure, Kelly's mother chanced upon the New Year sales at a Yokohama shopping mall, where discounts were as high as 80%. "She immediately...
“[We] really became immersed in the culture of the campaign. You learned what the concerns and needs of people in that area were,” he said. “It was a tremendous chance to see the differences in American political culture but also see...
When he arrived in Cambridge, Summers said he had learned in Washington to temper his public opinions.
“You learned very quickly that the right way to handle things was to speak with restraint,” Summers said in 2001. “Being provocative and interesting wasn’t always good.”
Lai says that as she learned more about what she called systemic injustices against people in Taiwan, she became increasingly interested in broader issues of racial and ethnic prejudice in the United States as well.