Word: picked
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Matt Fong was the 1998 Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate and felt the sting during that fierce run for national office. He recalls several instances when a reporter asked him which side he would pick if he were a member of the U.S. Senate and China attacked the U.S. The questions were unjust. Fong is a fourth-generation Californian and served as state treasurer from 1995 to 1999. His mother was California's secretary of state from 1975 to 1994. "There is a subtle stereotyping and racism below the surface," says Fong. "It caught...
...There is the perception that Asian Americans are easy to pick on because we don't have political clout and we don't speak out," says aids researcher Dr. David Ho, TIME's 1996 Man of the Year. He and others plan to use a Sept. 18 White House-sponsored "Asian-American initiative" at New York University to rally support for Wen Ho Lee and Asian-American civil rights. Says Ho: "We need our Jesse Jacksons and Al Sharptons to scream bloody murder when an injustice is carried out against our community." Lee's nine-month imprisonment...
...fact, that she didn't realize her own strength. "I learned defense pretty fast," she says. "I dislocated a girl's arm once. Well, actually, she punched me at the wrong angle so she messed herself up. But I'd walk outside the gym and want people to pick a fight with me. If you go and look for trouble, you'll find it. My ego was about to run away with...
...they hate to do: nothing. "You see me spending all this time talking to you on the phone?" barks one top commercial agent, who sounds as if he could have hired himself from Central Casting. "That's 'cause my other line ain't ringing. Notice my assistant didn't pick up - I did. We had to let her go, to another part of the company...
...answer," one Gore adviser says. "It's that the answers are not good for him." Team Bush insists its man is just as eager to attack the Clinton-Gore record. He will push the argument that the administration has presided over an "education recession," and he will try to pick apart the details of Gore's prescription-drug plan in an attempt to show it is as onerous as Hillary Clinton's failed health-care reform. The Bush people are also girding to defend their turf. "He will misrepresent the governor's record in Texas and his proposals...