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...event, which will run from December 1 to 16, is designed to educate Asian-Americans about their common background, said coordinator Linda L. Wei '92. "Our first purpose is to let Harvard Asian-Americans be aware of their heritage," Wei said...

Author: By Haibin Jiu, | Title: Asian-American Groups Plan Culture Celebration | 12/1/1990 | See Source »

Victoria Y. Wei '93: "When my roommate and I were shopping houses, we got lost in the tunnels of Adams House, and then we heard this `You are my sunshine, my only sunshine...'" The voice belonged to Lauderdale, and he was wearing "this little...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: Thomas Lauderdale: High Energy Plus Fashion Sense | 11/16/1990 | See Source »

...reason why we're here," says Wei's roommate, Helen L. Limm '93. "He's got that image but it's not pretentious at all in my eyes...it's not like he's stealing attention away from other people," she says...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: Thomas Lauderdale: High Energy Plus Fashion Sense | 11/16/1990 | See Source »

...electronic sea. The world has now grown electronically dense, densest of all perhaps among the Japanese, who answer the phone with a crowded, tender, almost cuddling, quick- whispered mushi-mushi. The Russians say slushaiyu (I'm listening). The hipper Russians say allo. Italians say pronto (ready). The Chinese say wei, wei (with a pause between the words, unlike the Japanese mushi-mushi). Wei, wei is meaningless, except as a formula to answer the phone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Hoy! Hoy! Mushi-Mushi! Allo! | 1/29/1990 | See Source »

...ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, summed up the reaction when he called Beijing's announcement "more blue smoke and mirrors ((that)) would not fool anybody in Congress into believing that the Chinese leadership was moderating its oppressive rule." He might as well have said, "Wu suo wei...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Blue Smoke and Mirrors | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

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