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May 11 - 17, 2001
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Lighting Up Against the LawBy Ethen Lieser
Moments later, a young man enters the bar. “You can smoke in here?” he asks the bearded man, looking as surprised as a deer in headlights. The bearded man just shrugs and points his cigarette into the air, as if to say, “Well, I’m doing it.” |
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A middle-aged, grizzly-bearded man enters the Korean bar on the edge of San Francisco’s Tenderloin. He orders a drink, and then, as if by natural instinct, he flips open a pack of cigarettes. He lights up. The bartender, a woman around 30, reaches under the bar and grabs an ashtray. She sets it next to him.
Also In Bay Area & California News
By Brian Melley/AP In a park on the edge of Stockton, Calif.’s muddy shipping channel, a white man and an Asian American woman hold hands beneath a shade tree. A black man and his white wife squint in the sunlight as they push their three children in strollers toward a fountain choked with squealing children of different ethnicities. On a spring day with temperatures soaring, this inland port city is a melting pot of many kinds. Man Arraigned in Toy Bomb Case: U.C. Berkeley to Name Building After Former Chancellor: Your Big Chance to Dodge Fees:
Ethnic Groups Mixing More in Central California than on Coast
Justice:
$1.2 million awarded to Hmong American woman for jail time in tuberculosis med mixup.
Pleads guilty to mailing killer bomb in toy dog.
Chang-Lin Tien to be namesake of new study center.
S.F. Library offering full waiving of overdue book fines.
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