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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2003
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6:05p - Chinatown, Globalization, and the Legacy and Future of Exclusion
It has been sixty years since the U.S. Congress and President Roosevelt repealed the Chinese Exclusion Act, thirty-eight since the 1965 Immigration Act allowed, for the first time since 1882, more than a small number of Chinese immigrants into the U.S. per year, and thirty since the opening of diplomatic relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China made one of the Chinese community's greatest fears — selective (or even mass) deportation to China due to an anti-Communist movement — diminish from a constant fear to a present, but ever more distant worry. Chinatown remains as a demographic and political consequence of this history, yet other factors compete with the legacy of exclusion in shaping today's Chinatown. The nature of Chinatown's future will likely depend as much on these factors as on those which shaped the neighborhood during the exclusion era.
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6:20p
| What Irrational Number Are You? | You are √2 You are in good company, many other square roots are also irrational numbers. Just by being a square root you have been branded a radical. You are considered very attractive, especially by Europeans (at least on paper.) You fear that a relationship with another √2 may somehow end up complex and ultimately imaginary. In reality, only another √2 will make you whole. Your lucky number is approximately 1.41421356 | |
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