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JINN MAGAZINE
PACIFIC NEWS SERVICE
Issue No. 4.02
01/19/98 - 02/01/98
VOICES: First-Person Essays Linking the Private to the Public
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Voice of Vietnam's New Generation Strikes Some Familiar Notes
By Thinh Le, as Told to Andrew Lam
Date: 01-21-98
Thinh Le is ambitious, hopeful and smart -- typical of the relatively small number of Vietnamese who make it to college. He finds most of his peers, born after the war, less interested in ideology than they are in living a better life. He spoke with PNS Editor Andrew Lam, who is taking a first-hand look at the "Asian Crisis" in Thailand, Vietnam and Burma.
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Gender Relations-- Why Young Men Beat Up on Young Women
By Michael Datcher
Date: 01-22-98
News that a high school in Southern California has started a class on domestic violence prompts PNS commentator Michael Datcher to write about why, for him, gender relations is the most pressing issue facing his generation of African Americans. Datcher is a Los Angeles-based freelance writer and co-editor of "Tough Love: The Life and Death of Tupac Shakur".
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Why the Private Life of Public People Matters
By Richard Rodriguez
Date: 01-27-98
Many commentators, notably feminists, dismiss stories about the sex life of President Clinton as irrelevant to his public role. But this requires drawing a straight line between public and private lives -- a line that feminists as well as homosexuals have spent decades working to overcome. PNS editor Richard Rodriguez, author of Days of Obligation, is an essayist who contributes regularly to the PBS News Hour with Jim Lehrer, Harper's and the Los Angeles Times.
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An Asian Perspective on the Clinton Affair -- Sex and the Single Superpower
By Sanjoy Banerjee
Date: 01-27-98
For Asians beset by a financial crisis which is, at heart, a crisis of confidence, the prospect of a leaderless United States is especially ominous. PNS commentator Sanjoy Banerjee is a professor of international relations at San Francisco State University.
VECTORS: A Regular Column on the Ideas and Directions Behind Today's News
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Clinton's Biggest Crisis-- The Rapidly Falling Price of Oil
By Franz Schurmann
Date: 01-26-98
In October 1973, as Watergate revelations were unfolding, Washington's strategists blamed Nixon for having lost control in the Middle East. In August 1974 he resigned. Now, too, as the Monica-gate scandal heats up, Clinton is widely perceived as having lost control over the price of oil. Beyond fending off accusations caused by the scandal, his biggest challenge may be to repair a bungled Mideast policies. PNS editor Franz Schurmann, a professor emeritus of history and sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, has written several books on global politics.
THE AMERICAS: The Growing Enmeshment of the U.S. and Latin Worlds
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As The Pope Visits, Cuba's Other Priests Deserve Some Attention
By Kimi Eisele
Date: 01-20-98
Pope John Paul's visit to Cuba has stimulated quantities of comment on Communism and Catholicism, secularism and spirituality. But this tidy duality ignores an important part of everyday life in Cuba, a set of religious observance that has apparently flourished despite government decree. PNS correspondent Kimi Eisele, who reports on a first-hand encounter with Santeria, is working toward a master's degree in geography and Latin American studies at the University of Arizona.
CALIFORNIA COLLAGE: California as Trendsetter for the Country and the World
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Why Anti-Bilingual Initiative Makes Learning English Harder, Not Easier
By David Bacon
Date: 01-23-98
California's anti-bilingual education initiative promises to make learning English easier in California's schools -- the goal of every immigrant parent. But a close reading of the text of the initiative shows why it will actually narrow the options for poor and immigrant students and make learning English more difficult. PNS associate editor David Bacon writes widely on immigrant and labor issues.
MOVEMENTS: Strategies For Survival, Identity and Direction by People on the Margins
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So-Called Selfish Generation Turning Thumbs Down on Death Penalty
By Michael Kroll
Date: 01-28-98
Despite media reports of a "continuing trend" away from concern with such issues as civil rights and desegregation among young people, their opposition to capital punishment is on the rise. PNS commentator Michael Kroll looks at a survey of 250,000 college freshmen across the country and explores this interesting countercurrent. Kroll, an associate editor of Pacific News Service, specializes in criminal justice and death penalty issues.
CIVIL CONFLICTS: Interpretive Reports on Ethnic, Religious, and Inter-National Conflicts Worldwide
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Children as Scabs -- Filipino Dockers' Union Loses Ground to 10 Year Olds
By David Bacon
Date: 01-19-98
On one dock in a port in the Philippines, workers trying to get a living wage have been stymied by their employers' decision to use children, boys aged 10 to 17. Although this is clearly illegal, the government has refused to move because it wants to attract global investors with cheap labor. PNS editor David Bacon writes about the winners and losers in the new global economy.
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Some Familiar Faces Reappear in MonicaGate
By Peter Dale Scott
Date: 01-26-98
Lucianne Goldberg, the book agent who suggested that Linda Tripp record her conversations with Monica Lewinsky, and then took the tapes to the FBI, has had a career of digging up sexual dirt on Democrats. PNS commentator Peter Dale Scott uncovers some of Goldberg's past efforts along these lines, and reveals some intriguing connections. PNS commentator Peter Dale Scott, a former Canadian diplomat is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Costly Delay -- Kaczinski Plea a Year Late
By Michael Kroll
Date: 01-28-98
California could have saved millions of dollars if it had accepted Ted Kaczynski's plea a year ago, when it was first offered. Studies of cases prosecuted since capital punishment was restored in 1973 show that the state pays millions of dollars more when it pursues the death penalty rather than life in prison. PNS associate editor Michael Kroll specializes in criminal justice and death penalty issues.
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A Black Viewpoint-- African-Americans Fear Consequences of Sex Scandal
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson
Date: 01-29-98
The possibility that the president will be seriously damaged politically by the sex scandal has created considerable anxiety in the African American community. PNS commentator Earl Ofari Hutchinson explores the reasons for the president's high standing among blacks, and finds solid reasons for that anxiety. Hutchinson is the author of The Assassination of the Black Male Image. (email: ehutchi344@aol.com)
YOUTH OUTLOOK: The World Through Young People's Eyes
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Note From a Journal (Part III) -- Life in Post-Affirmative Action America-- The College Culture
By Caille Millner
Date: 01-30-98
In the world after affirmative action what are young people finding to be the major sources of inequity in their personal lives and how are they overcoming them? Caille Millner, an 18-year-old African American from San Jose, Ca., is keeping a journal on her experiences as she navigates her way through Harvard University where she is completing her first semester. Here are the third entry in her journal. Millner writes for YO! (Youth Outlook), a newspaper by and about young people published by Pacific News Service.
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