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Suit Claims Prop. 21 in Violation of Law
By Bob Egelko/APThe League of Women Voters and youth advocacy groups asked the state Supreme Court on April 20 to strike down Proposition 21, claiming that the wide-ranging juvenile crime initiative violates the state Constitution’s ban on ballot measures that cover more than one subject.
The measure, approved March 7 by 62 percent of California voters […] -
Screaming Plants
MUSICAL CHAIRS: On April 26, the 31-member S.F. Democratic County Central Committee will vote to elect Chair Natalie Berg’s successor, who’s running for re-election to the College Board—and not precluding a run for supervisor.
A top contender is Jane Morrison, who has close fundraising ties with the Chinese Newcomer Service Center and recruited a number of […] -
Saving The World From Armageddon–Again
Anime feature trades plot for visual prowess
By Jeremiah JeffriesIn America it is nice to see Japanese animation, or anime, movies make it to the big screen. So it was especially nice this past year to have seen two excellent films from different genres in theaters: the beautifully intelligent Princess Mononoke and the powerful psycho-thriller Perfect […] -
The Romantics
Pankaj Mishra explores the seduction of the expat scene in Benares
By Kimberly ChunWe live in one of the least romantic of times. We attend singles clubs’ mixers and deconstruct personal ads in our search for romance. Yet most people probably spend more time with their computer than their partner, and the most renowned union of […] -
EL Greco: The Greek, The Bad and The Ugly
By Anh Lan HoangImagine a lonely setting in a landscape where a cowboy looks for some sort of exoticism in order to rescue himself from the universal feeling of melancholy. With that mood, El Greco charmed the intimate audience with a delightful performance on April 20 at the dusky Café Renegade in San Francisco. “You […]
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Elián Gonzalez and the Context of History
By Phil Tajitsu Nash
The saga of 6-year-old Elián Gonzalez dominated an otherwise quiet Earth Day and religious holiday in the nation’s capital last week and weekend.
Around-the-clock negotiations gave way to a pre-dawn raid by federal agents on Saturday morning that resulted in Elián being taken from Miami relatives and returned to his father in the […] -
Student Arrested in Racist E-mail Threats
By Greg Smith/AP
A three-week span of racist threats, terror and intimidation at the University of Iowa’s College of Dentistry ended on April 20 with the arrest of a second-year dental student.
Tarsha Michelle Claiborne, 23, of Baton Rouge, La., was charged with sending racist and threatening e-mails to minority classmates in the dental school as […] -
Will the Next Star Trek Series See an API Captain?
Fans lobby Paramount urging George Takei as next series lead
By Thomas Lee
After the success of numerous reincarnations, the Star Trek franchise may once again get a new captain and boldly go where no man has gone before. The uncharted territory this time could revolve around an Asian American commander, Captain Hikaru Sulu (George Takei) of […] -
Poll Gauges Vietnamese Americans’ View of Media
Too much emphasis on food, festivals and crime
By Jason Ma
A majority of Vietnamese Americans in Little Saigon say stories in the English-language media in Southern California focus too much on food, festivals and crime, according to a poll released April 19.
Of the 418 respondents to the poll, 60 percent said there was too much emphasis […] -
Remembering the Other 25th Anniversary
Cambodian ‘killing fields’ survivor writes family valediction in new book
By Janet Dang
When they killed my father I knew that it was real,” Luong Ung remembers. “I knew that it was never going to be back to normal.”
Ung was only six when her father was taken away by members of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. […] -
Lee Defense Challenges Search Warrant
All evidence seized
By Richard Benke/AP
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—When FBI agents seized the short stories of Guy de Maupassant and the plays of Tennessee Williams from Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee’s home, they acted without the restraint that the search warrant should have imposed, Lee’s lawyers say.
The attorneys argued April 17 that the search warrant was illegally […] -
JLA War Reparations Plan
By Brendan Riley/AP
Art Shibayama was just 13 when he and other family members were forced from their home in Peru in 1944 and put on a ship for a three-week voyage to the United States—and an internment camp in Texas. The Shibayamas and tens of thousands like them who lost their freedom and property […]
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I think college is a time for experimenting. Ignore the parents, date your girlfriend but others too.
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Guys: "Raqcoon Mammal" would appear to have squashed this nail on its hammerhead. Squarely. Well, coolly as well? MSMedia are truly passe in today's B&B, that's Barnum & Bailey, young'ns, one of whom is said to have said that "there's one born every minute," meaning "suckers" as in placebo/nostrum buyers.
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McCain's voucher plan will help poor Asian kids to escape public schools, and receive decent education at private schools, many of which are indeed "faith-based", e.
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Also, a Jewish guy's clarification of the Lafayette High School situation: Mike Berman’s Letter to AP Dear Sir: Today’s AP article, “Asian Youths Suffer Harassment in Schools” was informative but sadly misleading in one important aspect.
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Dear "observer": You are absolutely right about my personal education history, insofar as I was lucky to be one of only three? Chinese-American students at Horace Mann Grade School in San Jose, way back in the mid-'20s, Half-"right" in the ensuing fact I attended Francisco Jr.
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I have a feeling that Christian and Frank Eng went to all-white schools and don't know what it's like for Asians to attend "diverse" schools, so I post a 2005 article: http://www.
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As a reader, I feel I have joined the conversation too late to make sense of this, since it's already at the level of polemic.
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"And I understand that those Asian-Americans who do uncritically embrace racist ideas about black people usually glean them from the dominant (i.
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Jammer: You are more than "right." Your experience is, likely, not all that different from ANY suffered at the hands of bullies.
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