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...first Asian-Americans admitted to the college in the early 1970s to feel less culturally alienated at Harvard. Last offered in 1983, the course has since evolved into a vehicle for pursuing Asian-American studies--both anthropological and historical--under the supervision of Professors Dorinne Kondo and Wei Ming...
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...visiting businessmen. Last April, party officials, after solemnly viewing videotapes of the British rock group Wham!, allowed the band to appear in Peking, complete with scantily clad go-go dancers and pelvis-thrusting vocalist. A golf course is scheduled to open next May in the historic Valley of the Ming Tombs, with prospects of ski slopes, a racetrack and a hotel to be built nearby...
...improbable harmony. One recent Thursday evening in Flushing, six drinkers sat at the bar of the Lychee Village restaurant: a black, an Indian, a Korean, two Chinese and, discussing educational policy with one of the Chinese men, a middle-aged white. "We have all kinds," says Owner William Ming. "German, Irish, South African, black, white, Chinese, Korean, all steady customers. They like each other. Why shouldn't they?" In the Elmhurst neighborhood of Queens, the city's most eclectic immigrant community of all, the congregation of the First Presbyterian Church reflects the extraordinary local mishmash. The church has a governing...
...company's comeback is the work of Chairman Sanford Sigoloff, who has made a career of saving ailing firms through tough cost-cutting moves that have won him a nickname taken from the Flash Gordon comic strip: Ming the Merciless. When Sigoloff came to Wickes in 1982, he closed down several unprofitable divisions. After losses in 1982 and 1983 totaling $507 million, the company had net income of $296 million in its last fiscal year. To bankroll the Gulf & Western deal, Wickes has been issuing new stock and securities. About $500 million is in hand, and Sigoloff anticipates no trouble...