8 Asians

Reuters came out with an article about how China’s officials are worried too few foreigners are learning Chinese.

There has been a big rise in the number of foreigners learning Chinese, but still too few are studying the language, officials said on Thursday, worried this may affect efforts to soften China’s global [...]

Everyone’s favorite lefty newsblog came out with a fun little poll: “Who’s The White House’s Hottest?”
One of the hotties in the running is 25-year old bachelor Eugene Kang, special assistant to Obama and political activist. Kang is also noted as one of Obama’s golfing buddy, even vacationing with him in Hawaii. A graduate of the [...]

All good things don’t last long; there will always be someone to ruin it.
As the Dartmouth community was in the midst of celebrating the appointment of Jim Yong Kim, an e-mail was sent out to the entire school in “an attempt of satire”:

“Date: March 3, 2009 11:06:39 AM EST
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Dartmouth College announced on Monday that Jim Yong Kim would be the school’s 17th president and the first Asian American to head an Ivy League institution.
Kim’s qualifications are beyond perfect.
After graduating from Brown University in 1982 with a major in human biology, he went on to earn a medical degree and a doctorate in anthropology [...]