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JINN MAGAZINE
PACIFIC NEWS SERVICE
Issue No. 5.16
08/02/99 - 08/15/99
VOICES: First-Person Essays Linking the Private to the Public
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Day Trading Firms Thrive On Addictive and Impulsive Behavior
By Gregory J. Millman
Date: 08-05-99
Day trading can't be stopped, and there are sound economic reasons why it should not be. But just as bartenders who ply drunken customers with drinks should be held responsible for the consequences, day trading firms should be held to the same standard. PNS commentator Gregory J. Millman is the author of "The Day Traders," forthcoming from Times Books. Millman's previous book, "The Vandals' Crown -- How Rebel Currency Traders Overthrew the World's Central Banks" (Free Press, 1995), was translated into nine languages and became a Business Week best seller.
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Black America Is In A Bad Mood -- And Not Without Reason
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson
Date: 09-13-99
By most indicators, African-Americans are doing better than ever. Yet there is a feeling in the black community that racism is still very much a part of every day, and PNS commentator Earl Ofari Hutchinson examines some of the reasons for that feeling. 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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Who Are We? Rules of Identify Are Changing in a Borderless World
By Walter Truett Anderson
Date: 08-02-99
We often identify ourselves in terms of belonging to a community, but our idea of "community" has changed so much that the notion of "identity" itself has become quite slippery. This is even more noticeable in our new global society. PNS commentator Walter Truett Anderson is the author of "The Future of the Self (Tarcher Putnam, 1997).
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Fa-lun-gong Signals a Troubled China Turning Inward
By Franz Schurmann
Date: 08-03-99
After 50 years of turning outward, China and its people are turning inward. This is the real lesson of the rapidly spreading Fa-lun-gong movement and of the Communist government's crackdown. PNS editor Franz Schurmann, professor emeritus at UC-Berkeley, has traveled widely in China and reads extensively in the Chinese media.
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How Chinese Media Are Reporting on the Fa-lun-gong Purge
Translated by Franz Schurmann
Date: 08-03-90
In its crackdown on the Fa-lun-gong the Chinese government closed down a million e-mail addresses. Foreign net sites are responding tit-for-tat, according to the Sing Tao Daily on July 31. The Sing Tao, headquartered in Hong Kong, publishes a West Coast edition in South San Francisco.
PACIFIC PULSE: The Pacific Century and Its Impact on the Americas
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Warning For Would-Be Investors-- Vietnam Unlikely to Rebound
By Trinh Do
Date: 08-10-99
Would-be investors eyeing Vietnam in the wake of improved U.S.-Hanoi relations should take a long hard look at the past five years. A trade agreement is clearly in the offing but what's missing is any sign that Hanoi is prepared or capable of weakening its control for the sake of economic reform. Trinh Do, a Bay Area based business executive, recently returned from three years in Vietnam working for a major American corporation. First of two perspectives.
CALIFORNIA COLLAGE: California as Trendsetter for the Country and the World
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Yee Drops Out Of S.F. Mayoral Race
By Alfonso Serrano F.
Date: 08-05-99
San Francisco Supervisor Leland Yee leaves the potent Chinese vote up for grabs by pulling out of the mayoral race, citing financial difficulty. Alfonso Serrano F. is a reporter for New California Media Online (www.NCMonline.com), a project of Pacific News Service.
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Gleanings From the Ethnic Media #32
By Emil Guillermo
Date: 08-06-99
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.
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Radio Station Fracas Not Just "Another Berkeley Story"
By Judith Coburn
Date: 08-12-99
Recent struggles at radio station KPFA -- including demonstrations and a protest march -- have been greeted with knowing remarks about the 1960s and Berkeley radicals. The station is operating again, at least for a time, but PNS commentator Judith Coburn writes that the issues involved are very much of the 1990s, and should concern us all. Coburn has written all over the media map from "The Village Voice" to "The Los Angeles Times" and has taught media at the University of California.
MOVEMENTS: Strategies For Survival, Identity and Direction by People on the Margins
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Insult to Injury-- Abuses of the Bracero Program Continue 35 Years Later
By Jesus Martinez
Date: 08-04-99
Between 1942 and 1965, the U.S. government issued some 4.5 million contracts to Mexican workers ("braceros") willing to come to the U.S. for brief periods. The program, widely criticized for failing to protect workers from abuse, seems to have added insult to injury by "losing" money that rightfully belongs to the workers. 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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Read All About It! -- Street Papers Have the Real Story
By Piet Van Lier
Date: 08-06-99
Over the last 10 years, amidst the proliferation of new, high-speed communications, many cities have witnessed the birth of old-fashioned but determined tabloid newspapers written and sold by "street people." Now some 40 in number, at a recent convention they revealed considerable variety, according to PNS corespondent Piet van Lier. Van Lier is a Cleveland-based journalist and photographer who writes for a local alternative weekly and other publications.
CIVIL CONFLICTS: Interpretive Reports on Ethnic, Religious, and Inter-National Conflicts Worldwide
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Rhetoric-Rattling Clouds Reality of Taiwan-China Relations
By Ling-Chi Wang
Date: 08-09-99
Taiwan's premier has stirred up a storm of words and bluster with his rejection of China's long-standing view of his country as province of the mainland. But despite the noise, according to PNS commentator Ling-Chi Wang , there is little chance of actual physical conflict. Wang chairs the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of California-Berkeley.
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Phony Charges Again Earn Media Respect In Abu-Jamal Case
By Linn Washington Jr.
Date: 08-11-99
A reporter who has followed the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal for nearly 18 years knew that the recent claim that Abu-Jamal had confessed was groundless. But he also knew that it would be accepted as gospel by the major media, in part of a disturbing but well-established pattern. PNS commentator Linn Washington Jr. is a journalism professor at Temple University and a graduate of the Yale Law Journalism Fellowship who writes extensively on inequities in the criminal justice system.
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