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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19900516
Author:Charles Osgood

Groucho Marx once observed that: "No one is completely unhappy over the failure of his best friend."

Most of us handle other people's failure very well. We can be supportive, sympathetic, understanding. Failure is easy. "The one unpardonable sin against one's fellows," according to Ambrose Bierce, "is success."

Asian-Americans, former boat people from Vietnam, refugees from Cambodia, Korea and Thailand, immigrants from Japan, China and elsewhere in that part of the world, are committing Bierce's unpardonable sin. They are succeeding here in this country. They are doing well. Not every ...

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