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2003 Stories by Bernice Yeung

• Innocence Arrested

  published October 29, 2003

  Albert Johnson grew up in Richmond, Calif., in a part of town where drug dealers loitered on the corner, gangs had both a visible and... More >>

• Case Study: Clifford St. Joseph

  published October 29, 2003

  John Doe No. 60, a drunk, homeless man who has never been identified, was murdered in 1985 in San Francisco. His lower lip was cut, allegedly so... More >>

• Case Study: Ludrate Burton

  published October 29, 2003

  Alexius McNeal, a 13-year-old living in Bayview-Hunters Point, was killed by a single gunshot to the back of her head on the morning of April 21,... More >>

• Case Study: Christopher Taylor

  published October 29, 2003

  On the afternoon of Aug. 28, 1997, an African-American man wearing a black windbreaker and dark jeans robbed a Bank of America in east San Jose.... More >>

• Connerly's Con

  published September 10, 2003

  Anticipating vociferous opposition that could sink him politically, UC Regent Ward Connerly attached a laundry list of exemptions to his... More >>

• Bickering Bikram

  published July 16, 2003

  It is minutes before the 5:30 p.m. Bikram yoga class at Funky Door Yoga on Polk Street, and about three dozen students have taken their places in... More >>

• Shake Your Butoh

  published June 25, 2003

  Often described as raw, shocking, powerful, and perverse, Dairakudakan is regarded as one of the most spectacular butoh dance companies to... More >>

• Fear Factor

  published June 11, 2003

  Last Wednesday morning, Shirley Fong-Torres, who teaches Chinese cooking and leads walking tours of Chinatown, sat at a desk in her Commercial... More >>

• Regime Changing

  published May 7, 2003

  On Feb. 5, with international dissent mounting against America's foreign policy toward Iraq, Secretary of State Colin Powell attempted to make one... More >>

• InvAsian: Growing Up Asian and Female in the United States

  published April 30, 2003

  Edited by Marjorie Beggs Study Center Press (2003), $18 InvAsian is an appropriate title for an anthology that busts... More >>

• Making Their Own Luck

  published April 9, 2003

  Evan Leong, a Bay Area native who wears baggy pants and hides his cornrows under a silver skullcap, has been working for free since he graduated... More >>

• Unarmed Soldiers

  published March 26, 2003

  For more than three years -- starting long before the War on Terror, before America and its few allies began dropping bombs on Baghdad -- David... More >>

• Absolutely Fabulous

  published January 29, 2003

  Leigh Bordelon, a former Catholic choir director and the daughter of missionaries, found her salvation in a book. It spoke to her about love and... More >>

• The Diary of a Teenage Girl

  published January 29, 2003

  By Phoebe Gloeckner Frog, Ltd. (2002), $22.95 On the dedication page of The Diary of a Teenage Girl, there's a simple flower... More >>