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	Bush’s First Days On the West Coast these days, you write until the lights go out. At $600 a megawatt hour, I’m considering a new career — as a power plant. What do I need? A treadmill? And yet there’s more material this week than my light bill will allow. So let’s start with the big news. It’s the Year of the Snake! A political year, if ever there was one! The transition is over and we’re head-first into the Bushes. Followed the campaign the whole year and didn’t make it to the inaugural. Sorry fellow citizens. Kid’s soccer games trump. I figured with George Schlatter of Laugh-in fame producing, it was going to be some kind of joke. And sure enough, instead of “Sock it to me,” it was “Soak it to me.” COMPLETE STORY...		Community Groups Push to Adjust U.S. Census for Minority Undercount (in National News) Help Rico: Eight-year-old Leukemia Patient Needs Bone Marrow Donor (in Bay Area News) Forecasting Asia's Economy in 2001 (in Business) The Wonderful World of Jason Shiga (in A&E) Emil Amok: Bush's First Days (in Opinion)

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Editorial: President Bush’s Pride Although he was not the presidential candidate favored by many traditional civil rights and community activists, President George W. Bush, Jr., is to be heartily commended for shattering the glass ceiling for women and people of color who seek to serve their government at it its highest level. For Asian Americans, the Bush appointments of Norman Mineta as secretary of transportation and Elaine Chao as secretary of labor are particularly significant. COMPLETE STORY...

Letters to the Editor: Japantown Bowl Property Sold; Ashcroft Editorial One-Sided; OCA and JACL Statements on Chao Troubling.

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