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...Lorie is really active," says Crawford, who possesses Hawaiian, Potawatomi and Kaw ancestry. "She is trying to create more reasons for Natives to start coming here...
Kingston's lecture was not composed of solely reading through her works, however. Whether explaining her books in more detail, or wandering through territory yet unwritten, her topics varied from Hawaiian mythology to redefining homelands and boundaries for immigrants. She covered the Vietnam war, and the reactions of Asian-American soldiers when faced with an enemy distinguished by their Asian ethnicity. She addressed, in personal and general terms, the tension created within personal ideologies when great forces such as state and ethnicity are obscured. Her subjects were not solely rooted in Asian-American culture; she repeatedly emphasized complete multiculturism...
...reminisced humorously about her days rowing for Radcliffe lightweight crew, recalling how the team lifted Hawaiian Punch cans filled with concrete instead of the more conventional weights used by the men's teams...
...crown jewel of the Contract with America"--tax cuts--before Congress recesses in October. Indeed, the Congress has given up on doing much of anything before the election, except for one piece of business--the Defense of Marriage bill, a pre-emptive strike at the possibility that a Hawaiian court may recognize unions between homosexuals. It's not immediately apparent why this bill should jump the queue ahead of the potential bankruptcy of Medicare and bills to keep the government running. The Hawaiian courts will not rule until the end of the year, and it will be 1997 before same...
...Francisco hotel around 6:30 a.m. on May 25, his life appeared to be turning around. The 28-year-old singer-songwriter for the ska/hip-hop/punk-rock trio Sublime had a reputation for wildness and womanizing, but he was trying to change. He had been married the week before in a Hawaiian-theme ceremony in Las Vegas, and now he was doing what he loved, touring the country with his band, which had just finished recording an album that, to everyone who heard it, sounded like a smash. In fact, Nowell felt so good that May morning, he decided to take...