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	Apocalypse Right Now While everyone was looking for a new anthem for the then-upcoming attack on Afghanistan, I renewed my faith in my all-time favorite (anti-)war film. Until recently, it continued to screen at the Sony Metreon IMAX theater, even after Sept. 11 when the studios withdrew their violent flicks from release and stopped promoting too-close-to-wartime-reality-for-comfort TV shows such as HBO’s A Band of Brothers. It’s Apocalypse Now Redux. Why is the 22-year-old film, albeit with 49 more minutes of previously unseen footage, worth viewing? We know Martin Sheen as the benevolent president of West Wing, not the maddened Captain Willard of Francis Ford Coppola’s epic reworking of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Brown Sugar is no longer on Top 40 radio. And the Vietnam War seems lifetimes ago. COMPLETE STORY...		APIAs Respond to the War on Terrorism (in National News) Korean American Senior Survey Finds New Needs (in Bay Area News) Normalizing Trade Relations With Vietnam (in Business) Apocalypse Right Now (in A&E) Afghan Opposition Made of Bitter Rivals (in Opinion)

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Done Right By Gerrye Wong In Palo Alto-based TheatreWorks’ production of Stephen Sondheim’s unforgettable musical, Pacific Overtures, Michael Kang-Sik Lee played Manjiro, the shipwrecked fisherman who returns to Japan with a warning of the impending American shoring. Based on true events of 1853, Pacific Overtures recounts the epic arrival of Commodore Matthew C. Perry and the USS Powhattan, which forced Japan to turn its back on ancient ways.

All That Jazz: AAJF2001’s kool kats from the Bay Area, Chicago and Osaka, Japan, come out and jazz trip Neela's Lit Picks Neela has outdone herself again. Winning Campaigns Online; Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress; Represented Communities: Fiji and World Decolonization. A&E Calendar Arts, entertainment, and community events around the country, listed alphabetically by region and category.

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