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April 6 - 12, 2001

The Seattle Mariners' Ichiro Suzuki played his first major league game April 2 against Oakland.
Getting into Full Swing

Asian players in the major leagues

By Brian Liou

Asia’s foreign invasion of America’s favorite pastime has only just begun. With the anticipated successes of Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki and New York Mets outfielder Tsuyoshi Shinjo, more baseball players from countries such as Korea, Taiwan, and Japan should be flocking to the states any day now. That’s if they have the guts.

COMPLETE STORY...

Ivy League Uproar: Student essay at Harvard incites a national debate
(in National News)

Addicted to Big Money... and Bad Odds: Casinos target Asian Americans
(in Bay Area News)

Japan's Financial Crisis: Is there a way out?
(in Business)

The First Steps: Young Japanese artists make their marks on the international map
(in A&E)

Emil Amok: The Plane, the Plane -- A theory of negative gravity.
(in Opinion)

Controversial Essay Inflames Ivy League:
A Harvard student’s informal personal writing incites a national debate.

Affirmative Action on Trial:
A district court judge orders the end of race-conscious admissions at the University of Michigan law school, and the case continues to make its way to the Supreme Court.

Also in National and World News...
• China Detains Asian American Professor
• Cambodian American Heritage Museum and Memorial in the Works
• Lawsuit Challenges Race-based School Assignments
• Buford Furrow Apologizes, Gets Life in Prison
• Oregon Man Answers Call to Pilgrimage
• Japanese American Soldiers Celebrated
• Washington Journal

In Sports News...
• Wang Becomes First Asian Player in NBA
• Vijay’s Long Journey

Census Watch 2000...
• California Becomes More API
• Sound Off in Washington
• Blast from the Past:
• Census Stats: Asian Americans, State by State

Addicted to Big Money -- and Bad Odds:
Casinos target Asian American gamblers.

Why Isn’t Our School Safe?
Youth Together rallies against violence in Oakland’s Richmond High School.

Also in Bay Area and California News...
• In Memory Of James T. Yee
• U.C. Berkeley Releases Data on 2001 Admissions
• Honda’s Pell Grant Proposal Fails in Congress
• Political Potstickers: Donkeys in Disneyland



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The Japanese Financial Crisis:
Business writer Ron Chepesiuk asks if there’s a way out.

Move Over, Bicycle!
China falls in love with the car.

Also in Business...
• Japanese City Banking on Hollywood
• Don F. Tang Honored

The First Steps:
Young Japanese contemporary artists make their marks on the international map.

Neela’s LitPicks:
New books for you to read: Bolo! Bolo!, Da Word, and Our Twisted Hero.

Also in Arts and Entertainment...
• Japanese Cartoon Book Rips Open Old Taiwanese Wounds
• On the Scene

Emil Amok:
The Plane, the Plane! Columnist Emil Guillermo presents his theories on negative gravity,U.S.-China relations, and the spy plane that went down.

Lead Editorial:
The Games We Play. “Invasion” is the word of the week.

Also in Opinion...
• Floss Talk: Hope My Mom Doesn’t See
• Voices from the Community: Without Borders
• Letters to the Editor

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