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August 31 - September 6, 2001

Emil Amok by Emil Guillermo

The Connie-Condit Affair

Years ago, I did the unspeakable. I challenged an icon who had come to be coronated.

The specific event was the Asian American Journalists Convention a few years back in Los Angeles.

The icon in question was Connie Chung, the pre-eminent Asian American journalist who at the time rarely took the time to dignify the group, let alone form any connection to an Asian American community.

Connie, in fact, had snubbed AAJA many times before — until the Los Angeles convention, when I suppose it was convenient to come out west and do a star turn.

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Identity 101
(Feature)

On the Records
(in National News)

Construction on Chinatown Campus Halted
(in Bay Area News)

Weiiiiiii... China's Cell Phone Market Ready to Explode
(in Business)

Emil Amok: The Connie-Condit Affair
(in Opinion)

Mr. Ogawa - The Trickster Hero
(in Sports)

A Giant Step for Womankind
(in A&E)

Also In Opinion

Remembering Queer Moments

Memories are collected every moment. What I cannot remember and what sticks in my mind for years always fascinates me. I am also intrigued by the interpretations of memories. For the same incident, my recollection can be so different from what my friend remembers. Yet, you know as well as I do, memories fade. We are always chasing after an image, somebody’s words, a warm touch with an elusive recollection of a past perception.

Being an Asian Pacific Islander American lesbian, my memories are coated with a queer lens and selectively filtered. It is about forgetting that time when I participated on a panel for a live Chinese radio show, and one caller after another, accused me of being everything from a pervert to a man-hater.

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Learning The Art Of Living:
Plug into the spiritual AOL, headed by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, the powerful guru hailing from India, who has a devoted following here of CEOs, engineers and other post-stressed professionals.

Letters to the Editor:
History Lessons; A Street for the New World; AAJA’s Mission Continues; Give Me (and Silverman) A Break; Joke Deserves Censure.


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