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JINN MAGAZINE
PACIFIC NEWS SERVICE
Issue No. 5.02
01/18/99 - 01/31/99
VOICES: First-Person Essays Linking the Private to the Public
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Running Against the Clock -- Something Old Can Very Well Be Something New
By Eve Pell
Date: 01-20-99
So unhappy are we with the idea of being old that the word itself has taken on a poisonous air. Yet age has its distinct and unique delights, especially for those engaged in competitive sports. PNS correspondent Eve Pell is the number one ranked woman road runner over 60 in the United States, and writes a regular column on veteran athletes for Pacific New Service.
HERESIES: Thinking the Unthinkable About the Future
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Star's High Flight Should Not Disguise Home Truths About Wealth, Race and Other Realities
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson
Date: 01-18-99
Superlatives of every sort greeted the announcement that basketball's superstar Michael Jordan will retire. But the impressive numbers should not be allowed to obscure several important cautionary lessons. PNS contributor Earl Ofari Hutchinson is the author of "The Crisis in Black and Black."
VECTORS: A Regular Column on the Ideas and Directions Behind Today's News
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Clinton's Populist Master Stroke
By Franz Schurmann
Date: 01-22-99
Clinton's State of the Union speech will rank as one of the great transformative documents in American and world history. He is proposing to re-make America as did the liberal Franklin Roosevelt and the conservative Ronald Reagan. Franz Schurmann, emeritus professor of history and sociology at UC Berkeley, in the Introduction of his "American Soul" (Mercury House, 1995) discusses the historical background to these 20th century re-makings of America.
PACIFIC PULSE: The Pacific Century and Its Impact on the Americas
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Why U.S. Hands Are Tied as India Readies New Missile Tests
By Andrew Robinson
Date: 01-25-99
India's nuclear weapons program arguably poses a greater threat to the world than anything coming out of Iraq, yet the United States has not moved in any forceful way to stop it. The reason is that India has something the U.S. cannot do without. PNS commentator Andrew Robinson, a freelance writer, worked as a consultant on Internet-related issues in Bangladesh and India for three years.
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Why Cambodia is No Basket Case
By Sophal Ear
Date: 01-29-99
Western media are full of grim and dire predictions for Cambodia these days. But in both Cambodia and the West, a new generation of young Cambodians is determined to give their country a future. PNS commentator Sophal Ear, born in Cambodia and raised in France and the U.S., works in Washington D.C. as a development consultant.
THE AMERICAS: The Growing Enmeshment of the U.S. and Latin Worlds
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Debate Over Mexican Migrants' Right to Vote Goes to the Heart of Questions About Democracy And Accountability
By Jesus Martinez
Date: 01-19-99
Under a law passed in 1996, Mexican citizens living abroad have the right to vote in national elections. But implementation of that law has stalled, and the matter itself has become the focus of a major national debate -- a debate which really concerns the future of democracy in Mexico. PNS commentator Jesus Martinez is an immigrant researcher and activist who was formerly a member of the Political Science Department at Santa Clara University.
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Mexico's Population Planners Walk a Fine Line to Reach Their Goal
By Mary Jo McConahay
Date: 01-22-99
In his fourth visit to Mexico in 20 years, Pope John Paul will encounter a country whose citizens -- however enthusiastic their welcome -- have moved away from church teachings in one crucial area. A remarkable drop in the birth rate reflects economic conditions, a more urban population, a vigorous state campaign -- and, quietly, in the most remote places, perhaps to representatives of the church itself.
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The Man Who Should Have Met the Pope in Mexico
By Sam Quinones
Date: 01-27-99
On his visit to Mexico, the Pope did not touch base with Luis Guerrero. This is a small omission, but it might have helped explain what the Catholic Church perceives as a decline in believers in the Americas. PNS commentator Sam Quinones is a Mexico City-based writer.
CALIFORNIA COLLAGE: California as Trendsetter for the Country and the World
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Gleaning From the Ethnic Media
By Emil Guillermo
Date: 01-21-99
What does the world look like as reported on the pages of California's growing ethnic newspapers? PNS monitors the Chinese-, Spanish-, Vietnamese-, Japanese, Arab-language news media as well as English-language newcomer and native-born ethnic press published and/or distributed widely in California. "Gleanings from the Ethnic Media" is a regular weekly column compiled by Emil Guillermo, host of "NCM: New California Media TV" (seen on PBS station KCSM-TV60 in the Bay Area); assisted by Pacific News Service and the NCM Network. Just as the alternative news media connected the disaffected populations in the 1960s, so in the 1990s the ethnic media connects the new ethnic majority communities of California -- to one another and to the larger public forum.
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Gleanings from the Ethnic Media
By Emil Guillermo
Date: 01-28-99
What does the world look like as reported on the pages of California's growing ethnic newspapers? PNS monitors the Chinese-, Spanish-, Vietnamese-, Japanese, Korean, Arabic-language news media as well as English-language newcomer and native-born ethnic press published and/or distributed widely in California. "Gleanings from the Ethnic Media" is a regular weekly column compiled by Emil Guillermo, host of "NCM: New California Media TV" (seen on PBS station KCSM-TV60 in the Bay Area); assisted by Pacific News Service and the NCM Network. Just as the alternative news media connected the disaffected populations in the 1960s, so in the 1990s the ethnic media connects the new ethnic majority communities of California -- to one another and to the larger public forum.
CIVIL CONFLICTS: Interpretive Reports on Ethnic, Religious, and Inter-National Conflicts Worldwide
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Pinochet Ball in Reno's Court
By Andrew Reding
Date: 01-14-99
The focus for the newest phase of the legal drama for Augusto Pinochet now opens in the U.S. Department of Justice. Janet Reno must decide whether or not to file charges against the former Chilean dictator for a 1976 car bombing in the District of Columbia that killed a U.S. citizen. While there is ample evidence of Pinochet's direct involvement, filing charges could further expose the United States' complicity in the 1973 coup that brought him to power. Pacific News Service associate editor Andrew Reding is senior fellow for hemispheric affairs at the World Policy Institute.
YOUTH OUTLOOK: The World Through Young People's Eyes
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The Pan-African American Experience -- Kinship and Difference, and the Need For Understanding
By YO! Staff
Date: 01-26-99
In a connected world, African Americans are coming to see themselves as part of a global population. Recognition of this expanding phenomenon was the subject of a recent special issue of YO! Youth Outlook. Andrea Jones, Stanley Joseph and Caille Millner are on the staff of YO! Youth Outlook, a newspaper by and about young people published by Pacific News Service.
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