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	The Great Yellow Hope You may not see an Asian male face anchoring the local TV news, but some of us will settle for the next best thing: An Asian male in the NBA slam dunking nightly on Sportscenter. Talk about in your face. Yao Ming, the highly-touted Asian basketball star, comes to the Bay Area this week as the “Great Yellow Hope.” He’s playing for Team China in an exhibition game against a bunch of so-so NBA players (all of them millionaires) that make up Team USA. It’s a tune up for the World Championship tournament that begins later this month in Indianapolis. Which means no one really cares who wins or loses this week... FULL STORY...		Finding the Inner Balance (Feature) New Plans in the Works for Houston’s ‘Old Chinatown’ (in National News) APA Suspects Sought in Hate-Related Assault (in Bay Area News) Ultimate Diversions: ‘Warcraft III’: Blizzard Does it Again (in Business) Johnny Damon Key in Ending Yankees Dynasty (in Sports) Hot ‘n’ Sour Dish: Barbie Food, Anyone? (in A&E) Emil Amok: The Great Yellow Hope (in Opinion)

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Lead Editorial: We’re Not Worthy I first came across Hawaiian activist Haunani-Kay Trask’s work one tranquil summer in Oregon. I was a publishing intern at a small press that published her first book of poetry, Light in the Crevice Never Seen. Trask’s heady mix of tropical image and angry indictment went straight to my head. The next fall I was working in curriculum support in the Philadelphia school district where I helped with professional training for teachers around Pacific Islander history and spent months learning — for the first time ever, since my history books always seemed to exclude it — about the annexation of Hawai‘i in 1893...

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