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	Golden Stuff Tarnished by Tolbert Race Apology For Asian Pacific Americans, the Super Bowl came a week early. Just as the Raider Nation has come together for The Big Game against the Bucs this weekend (the Raiders will win, 27-17, you heard it here first), the APA Nation had its own unique sporting concern last weekend when Shaquille O’Neal met Yao Ming. For those who missed the Rockets/Lakers basketball game, allow me to review our SportsCenter moment: Shaq, dumpy and overweight, looking like an oversized, over-cooked pot sticker, actually came out on the court wearing a Fu-Manchu mustache — perhaps his idea of a joke to match his “ching-chong” comments about Yao. FULL STORY...		The Power of Dignity (Feature) A Call for Peace (in National News) Huge Budget Cuts Will Affect APAs at City College (in Bay Area News) Rockets Beat Lakers in Overtime (in Sports) Anti-Abercrombie (in A&E) Golden Stuff Tarnished by Tolbert Race Apology (in Opinion)

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Voices From the Community: Silent Generation: As War Looms, Where Are the Youth? By Raj Jayadev | Pacific News Service Let’s face it, 2003 is a make-or-break year for progressives. A war looms, racist immigration detentions recall the internment camps of World War II, the economic future for working people feels like a punch in the gut and President Bush provides a credible target for protest. If U.S. activism is going to happen, now is the time. And to some respectable degree, voices critical of the U.S. march to imperialism are entering the public discourse. The problem is, these passionate, informed and angry calls for action come from yesterday’s activists, recently re-activated from “protest retirement.” MORE...

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