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APA Homes Hit in String of Heists
At least three Asian Pacific American households in Daly City were broken into and robbed of thousands of dollars worth of valuable artifacts, jewelry and coins on Jan. 12, according to Daly City police reports. The home invasions have a striking resemblance to a spree of home invasions that plagued the county last year.
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Bush’s ‘Rational and More Humane’ Reform
Acknowledging that the United States immigration system and laws need “more rational and more humane” reform, President Bush unveiled a plan on Jan. 7 that would allow eight million undocumented immigrants to legally work in this country.
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APAs Feel Ignored by Immigration Reform Proposal
Although President Bush’s immigration proposal sheds light on the flaws of the immigration system, Asian Pacific American advocacy groups say the plan fails to address critical issues impacting immigrant communities, and added that the president’s proposal is misleading, giving only false hopes to immigrants.
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Businesses With Low-Wage Jobs Praise President’s Call
The tourists who fill the indoor wave pool at the Cape Codder Resort & Spa each summer and vie for tables at the Hearth n’ Kettle restaurants won’t arrive for months.But Bill Catania, whose family owns the Massachusetts businesses, has already begun filling out forms to secure 90 temporary workers from Jamaica and Nepal needed […]
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APAs Feel Ignored by Immigration Reform Proposal
Although President Bush’s immigration proposal sheds light on the flaws of the immigration system, Asian Pacific American advocacy groups say the plan fails to address critical issues impacting immigrant communities, and added that the president’s proposal is misleading, giving only false hopes to immigrants.
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One True Artist: Playwright Julia Cho
Barely a month into 2004, playwright Julia Cho is already having a memorable year. Her first full production, The Architecture of Loss, about a man who returns to the wife and children he abandoned 16 years prior, recently opened at the prestigious New York Theater Workshop. To add to the accomplishment, The New York Times […]
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Sounds of the New Year
The San Francisco Symphony rings in Chinese New Year with a concert on Jan. 25 at Davies Symphony Hall.“This exciting concert program will bring together traditional and contemporary Chinese music with Western favorites performed by Chinese artists and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra conducted by Edwin Outwater,” Chair Margaret Liu Collins said.
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Yao Muscles in on Shaq in All-Star Vote
Yao Ming is making a strong run at Shaquille O’Neal to be the Western Conference’s starting center at the NBA All-Star game next month.
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Wie Power
Michelle Wie thought she made the cut at the Sony Open, only she sure didn’t behave that way.Even for a 14-year-old girl on the PGA Tour.
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Chinese American Chick Lit
Are there really guys who prefer East over West when it comes to hooking up?Yes, according to Lindsay Owyang, the protagonist in The Dim Sum of All Things.
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Some Like It Raw
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Mayor Names Heather Fong Interim Police Chief
At the request of Mayor Gavin Newsom, Assistant Chief Heather Fong will become San Francisco’s acting chief and replace Police Chief Alex Fagan, Newsom said Jan. 18. Fong’s elevation to chief forms an unprecedented circle of Asian Pacific Americans in the city’s top law enforcement positions. Fong joins the recently inaugurated District Attorney Kamala Harris […]
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To educator - I agree with you that it is possible to make insulting depictions of others intentionally.
Paul Corbero on Spanish Olympians - More Controversial Photos Uncovered
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There is a difference between a love relationship and a sexual relationship. A love relationship is when you get married and begin a family.
Noorie Lal on Committed Relationship, Unprotected Sex
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Oh, and furthermore . . . Speaking of "symphonies," orchestras that is, in my time and my dad as an inkstained wretch, Americans were still servile to the European models, and there was much fussing' and feudin' over whether the L.
Frank Eng on Sydney Orchestra "Synched" 2000 Olympics Performance (too)
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Oy! Aiyahhhh!! or Eeeeee!!! . . . as a character in "Taipan" mightk say . . . Doubles stabdards in "western" perceptions? In sexual mores? In self-anointing sanctities? Ia the Pope "Catholic"? Does he wear Prada? Do Oscars have genitals? Does anyone care? Other than Bette, that is.
Frank Eng on Sydney Orchestra "Synched" 2000 Olympics Performance (too)
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Dear pswing: Once more we meet in the shadows ot journalistic boonies here online. Political jiu-jitsu? I think Machiavelli was there first, or was it Tsun-tzu? Never mind, nothing's "original.
Frank Eng on Political Jiujitsu - Obama & Biden, McCain & Palin
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Dear pswing: Thank God it's "English" only hereabnuts. Were it any other tongue or script, I would have been renting a ricksha and hard put to haul that dumb tourist around Chinatown.
Frank Eng on Why Asians Speak English
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Bill C: "Popping out babies"> Aren't you oversimplifying a bit? And wouldn't THAT "problem" be more or less solved if the judgmentall authorities handed out condoms to sexually active children, in the ghettos especially, where they have scant opportunity, much less idea, of anything better? Like condescenion AND oppression? Reminds me of that pharmaceutical now promoting, nay, demanding, of society that ALL pubertal girls be "immunized," at 60 bucks a pop, in our "public" schools.
Frank Eng on Is the backlash here yet?: Chinese Americans — and all Asian Americans — Should Be Ready
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Some Questions to all Spaniards and others who went through the Spanish education system from elementary school to high school as I am trying my best to understand that doing the slant eye gesture is not offensive or hurtful to Asians in Spain.
educator on Spanish Olympians - More Controversial Photos Uncovered
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It is difficult to associate specific countries by physical markers, so stereotypical dressing and activities is more common If the Olympics where in a Scandinavian country would we interpret a photo of players wearing helmets with horns and blond hair as insulting or as a players posing as honorary Vikings? If the Olympics where in Ireland would we interpret a photo of players dressed in green and blond hair as an insulting or as a players posing as honorary Irish? If the Olympics where in Scotland would we interpret a photo of players dressed in kilts and holding wind pipes as insulting or as players posing a honorary Scotch? If the Olympics where in Germany would we interpret a photo of players wearing lederhosen and Birkenstock sandals as insulting or as players posing as honorary German? If the Olympics where in India would we interpret a photo of players wearing a turban as insulting or as players posing as honorary Indians? If the Olympics where in Spain would we interpret a photo of players dressed in bullfighter garb insulting or as players posing as honorary Spaniards? If the Olympics where in U.
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Because there are more non native speaking english than native, we are publishing http://www.audioster.
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