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TOKYO (AP) - North Korea declared Tuesday it has a right to carry out long-range missile tests, despite international calls for the communist state to refrain from launching a rocket
believed capable of reaching the United States. MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) - A powerful storm in the South Pacific propelled huge swells to the Americas, causing a surge of waves that battered
homes and beachfront businesses from Peru to Mexico, authorities said Tuesday.
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copal delegates Tuesday snubbed Anglican leaders’ request to temporarily stop electing openly gay bishops, a vote that prompted the church’s leader to call a special session in hopes of reaching a compromise to preserve fragile Anglican unity. The vote by the Episcopal House of Deputies came just hours before Presbyterians, at a separate meeting, approved a plan to let local congregations install gay ministers if they wish.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The Sierra Club plans to shift millions in campaign cash from congressional races to state and local campaigns this fall, a sign from the nation’s oldest and largest environmental group that Washington is becoming less relevant to its cause. In an interview Tuesday with The Associated Press, Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope said his group is dedicating about a third of its anticipated $5 million to $10 million campaign fund to competitive state races this year. In past years, it has invested only 5 percent of its political money in state legislative campaigns.
Q&A Eliza Noh
Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies Do you think Asian culture has had an impact on American culture? In what ways and to what extent? Asian culture has had a significant impact on American culture ever since Asians began immigrating to the United States. Asian culture is also impacting American culture today, since globalization has brought Asian and American commodities and peoples together. What do you think about Asian cultural icons (like the Buddha or the Harajuku girls) being marketed in America? The commodification of Asian culture can be problematic, particularly if Asian people themselves are being objectified, like the Harajuku girls or Asian women in fetish porn. When people are objectified, it dehumanizes and stereotypes them, denying their human complexity. From your perspective, how do you think the Asian communities feel about the phenomenon? There are probably diverse opinions among Asian and Asian-American communities about the commodification of Asian culture. Some may feel that the marketing of Asian culture in the United States is a sign of economic progress and cultural integration. Some may feel that commodification empties Asian cultures of their intended meanings and importance to the people who practice them. The marketing of Buddhism is a good example. Some may feel that taking Buddhism out of its cultural and religious contexts for the purpose of mass consumption can empty it of its spiritual message. How do you feel about the phenomenon? I am less concerned about the marketing of Asian culture in the United States than I am about the lack of Asian-American people in positions of power, who can make the decisions about how they are being represented in the mass market so that Asian Americans can exercise some control over how they are being affected by public perceptions as a result of marketing.
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Stefani Leads Harajuku Resurgence An in-depth look at contemporary Far East fashion in local shops
BY JICKIE TORRES Summer Titan Staff
From Kimono sleeves to Tokyo punk, the fashion world has been riding a wave of Asian-influenced styles over the past year. With this summer’s The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, the trend doesn’t appear to be stopping anytime soon. Gwen Stefani has kept the Harajuku style going ever since her Love Angel Music Baby solo debut almost two years ago. The Harajuku Lovers spin off from her designer line L.A.M.B. honors the Tokyo district’s love for fun fashion. Even in her pregnancy, Stefani sported kimono-style dresses and maternity wear. The fall 2006 fashion season had plenty of Asian-inspired looks on the ready-to-wear runways. Vivienne Westwood’s normally London-street punk aesthetic showed a slightly more Japanese urban feel with an homage to Harajuku street couture. Westwood’s exaggerated color schemes and patterns and her mix-and-match, heavy-handed layering were reminiscent of Tokyo style. Laura Poretzky’s Abaeté and Alexander McQueen both used obi-sashed dresses and kimono sleeves in their collections. Ashish had a more modern take on Japanese-inspired design with their postmodern color-block palettes and neon socks and tights. Relative newcomer Blugirl took a slightly different route, with Chinesestyle prints and florals dominating their runway. Doo.Ri, the high-fashion darling from the last fall season, commemorated her fashion anniversary with a collection of subtle Asian-tinged
silhouettes. The designer’s ready-towear line was filled with closed and crossed necklines and balloon pant hems. But Asian looks aren’t just sported on the runways. Yvette Hernandez, a junior human services major, said she loves the look of Asian-inspired fashion. “I just think people like culturally inspired clothes,” Hernandez said. “I love the Japanese-style tops and mandarin collars.” Hernandez thinks celebrities like Stefani and Ziyi Zhang from Memoirs of a Geisha make Asian fashions popular. “When people see celebrities and stars wearing things, they naturally want to emulate that,” she said. “Gwen Stefani’s Harajuku thing is just really fun and cute, and I love the clean and fresh look of (Zhang’s) face.” Asian style is more a staple that a trend, said Alice Kim, owner of the Irvine-based boutique Lazy Rose. “I think people have always been attracted to the Far East,” Kim said. “As a buyer, I always try to look for things that are not just trendy but also classics, and every season we carry something that is Asian inspired.” Kim’s store currently carries several kimono-style dresses, and she said they are her most popular sellers. “They look great on everyone. They flatter any body type,” she said. The love affair between American buyers and Japanese fashion has been mutual and long running, said Mike Atta, owner of Fullerton vintage store Out of Vogue. “We carry Mandarin-style dresses,
and those are always gonna sell,” he said. “There are just the type of people who will always be into that.” What is more interesting to Atta is the number of Japanese tourists that come to his store looking for American goods. “When we first started, they were always looking for ’50s Americanastyle stuff. They are always looking for outrageous styles and colors,” Atta said. “This one guy comes once a year and buys like 50 Hawaiian shirts from me. And this other day, a Japanese couple were buying anything Victorian.”
Atta, who is completely baffled by the Japanese tourist’s shopping trends, points out that fashion is definitely a cycle. “I’ve seen fashion turn to Asian style in phases, but then Japan and a lot of Asian countries turn to very American stuff for their fashion. So it’s funny to think who is influencing who,” he said.
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Travel East Without Leaving the West many different Asian dinners locally, from Chinese to Thai.
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BY KIRSTEN ALTO Summer Titan Staff
The United States is a mix of people, a mix of cultures and therefore a mix of foods. There’s Mexican, Italian, German and food from almost every Asian country. Asian culture has influenced the food market in the U.S. to the point that even McDonald’s has an Asian salad on its menu. For CSUF students, it is easy to find
Ziing’s Bistro and Bar, at 209 N. Harbor Blvd. in downtown Fullerton, is a great place for a group of friends or for a date because of its elegant atmosphere. It may look pricey, but the portions are meant for sharing, so order a couple and share among a group. Try the pork dumplings for an appetizer and as a main dish, the Mongolian beef will hit your sweet tooth. Price: between $9 and $15 per entree. (714) 526-5777
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Sushi has grown in popularity in the United States over the years and now
many Sushi bars can be found locally. bor Blvd. in Fullerton, offers tradiHaru Haru, at 2445 E. Imperial tional Vietnamese/European-fusion Highway in Brea, is a great place to sandwiches at one of the greatest pricenjoy good sushi and the es around. best sticky rice around. They Its baalso have other Japanese guettes are filled items for non-sushi eaters. “Thai-Rama in with unTry any of the sushi rolls that include cream cheese. Fullerton is like visiting u s u a l vegetaThe cream cheese adds a lot of flavor and is especially bles and Thailand with your nice for those who are firstdifferent time sushi eaters. meats. tongue” Try any and all of Price: between $5 and $10 the sandper entree (714) 256-0808 wiches, including the croissants. Also, make sure to stop by the cart in the middle of the restaurant and test the small Delimanjoo fresh pasLee’s Sandwiches, at 1028 S. Har- tries.
Vietnamese:
Price: between $1.50 and $4 per sandwich (714) 525-2989
Thai:
Thai-Rama, located at 2500 E. Chapman Ave. in Fullerton, is like visiting Thailand with your tongue. Thai restaurants aren’t as common as Chinese and Japanese places, and they get a false wrap of being too spicy. But as far as Asian food goes, it’s up there.Try the padse-ew rice noodles with eggs, broccoli and black beans and the chicken pad Thai. Also, the combination fried rice with chicken, pork, beef and shrimp is among the greatest of all fried rice you can find locally. Price: between $5 and $10 per entree (714) 526-0777
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Tokyo Drift is a Waste of Gas Third movie in series not fast or furious enough to top success of predecessors BY KIRSTEN ALTO Summer Titan Staff
We love their food. We love their style. We love their anime, their written language and their geisha stories. And their cars? Hmm … not so much, at least not this time around. The Fast and the Furious: Toyko Drift is a far cry from even the first sequel (2 Fast, 2 Furious) to the original gas-guzzling The Fast and the Furious, which was the only one that should have ever been made. Of course, when a sequel is made and not even a D-list celebrity like Paul Walker wants to get involved, we cannot expect much. Although I’m a much bigger fan of muscle cars like Corvettes and Mustangs than of the souped-up Civics and Scions, the movie did not seem that bad when there was action on the screen, and the cars were
the way, Boswell has to learn to race in racing. Unfortunately, when the cars weren’t the new way with help from his friend, Twinkie, played by rapper-turned-acthe focus, bad acting took over. tor Bow-Wow, and Our racing a local named Han hero for this in“[I wished] I (Sun Kang). stallation is a carplot is weak, obsessed teen, were watching the fully- andThe even though the Sean Boswell racing scenes were (Lucas Black), digital driving flick, dynamic and excitwho has just been ing, many of the efexpelled from his Disney Pixar’s Cars, for fects and cars were umpteenth high created, school and now a second time instead of digitally making me wish I must take his last watching the option: to live Tokyo Drift for the first.” were fully digital driving with his dad in flick, Disney Pixar’s Japan. Cars, for a second Paul Walker’s time instead of Tokyo replacement is Drift for the first. not going to let a different country and Like many number threes in a seculture dissuade him from racing. He soon finds a new blend of speed and ries, this one was probably made in pure hopes of making money off of the style: Tokyo drift racing. “Drifting,” or racing with a con- once-decent The Fast and the Furious trolled skid, is said to have originated name. Unless you own a car resembling in rural Japan with drivers casually racing down windy mountain roads. those in the film, or perhaps if you’ve The sport then moved down to the cities. been to Tokyo and seen a drift race After challenging a local gang mem- first-hand, this movie is not recomber and stealing his girlfriend along mended.
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CLICK (PG-13) Directed by Frank Coraci and starring Adam Sandler, Christopher Walken, Kate Beckinsale, David Hasselhoff, Sean Astin. A workaholic architect who has been overlooking his family in favor of his career comes across a universal remote that allows him to perform TiVo-like functions on his life. When the remote begins choosing what to fast forward through, the man sees how much of his personal life has passed him by and realizes the importance of spending more time with his family.
WAIST DEEP (NOT RATED) Directed by Vondie Curtis Hall and starring Tyrese Gibson, Meagan Good, Larenz Tate, The Game , H. Hunter Hall “I’ll always come back for you,” single father O2 tells his young son Junior. Trying to go straight for Junior’s sake, the recently paroled ex-con is forced to go back outside the law after his son is kidnapped in a carjacking. The resulting chase and shootout have left Junior in the hands of Meat, the vicious leader of the Outlaw Syndicate.
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OPINION Professional Misbehavior
Providing insight, analysis and perspective since
An Indecent Bill Last Thursday President programs and channels. George W. Bush signed a bill into Bills that would have allocated law increasing Federal Commu- money for nation-wide awareness nications Commission indecency of the V-chip died in Congress. fines to $325,000 per incident, in- Instead, we were given a law that creasing existing fines by tenfold. increases punishment for broadHere at the Daily Titan, we cast networks while refusing to see this act as nothing more than target what many of the bill’s supa symbolic shot in the dark to porters feel are the worse offendplease an increasingly dissatisfied ers: cable networks. In the end, it seems that no one conservative voting bloc. should be happy The bill has not enacted any mean- “The bill has not enacted with the law. “Parents are the ingful change; a any meaningful change; first line of defense, child’s primary filbroadcasters ter of information a child’s primary filter of but and the electronics is his or her guardinformation is his or her industry must play ians. a valuable role in Parents and guardians.” protecting our chilguardians already have several dedren from obscene vices at their disposal to shield and indecent programming,” hildren from offensive material. President Bush said. Televisions sold in America have With all the technological tools been legally required to have V- available to parents, we believe chips installed in them for years. the reverse to be true. Parents are The device allows users to lock the final line of defense when it out channels or programs that do comes to shielding children. not meet certain standards, like a If guardians can’t be bothered to understand what parenting given rating. In addition, many modern tools they have at their disposal, television providers provide pro- then they cannot hold broadcastgramming with their decoder ers liable for offering offensive boxes that can be used to block programming.
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Mark Cuban’s passion for the game makes him one of the best team owners BY ADAM LEVY Assistant News Editor
Summertime has officially commenced and the idyllic weather fills our days and nights. People of all nationalities trot around, exhibiting pride in their colorful soccer jerseys. Fathers and sons walk through the gates of the ballpark, gloves in hand, keeping the continuity of our national pastime intact. But these days, no current figure in the sports world is a better poster boy for the American dream than Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban. His colorful antics and charades have gone from the sports page to the front cover, as his team, at press time, is competing in the NBA Finals against the Miami Heat. Cuban, 47, emerged from a humble working-class Pittsburgh background
GAME THREE FROM PAGE 8 Titan reliever Ryan Jorgenson would come in for Gagnier and would walk a batter before stranding the bases loaded in the bottom of the seventh inning. In the bottom of the ninth, Jorgensen would give up a leadoff double to Taylor Harbin before making way for Ryan Paul, who was battling food poisoning, much like Gagnier. The big lefty would strike out Andy
in which he sold powdered milk and garbage bags to become one of America’s most prolific businessmen. Ahead of the curve on the technological revolution, Cuban prospered from a number of major business moves during the late ‘90s dot-com boom to amass a personal net worth estimated at $1.8 billon, according to Forbes. What separates him from every other John D. Rockefeller is his love for the limelight and Peter-Pan like behavior in terms of enjoying his riches. As owner of the Mavericks, Cuban is the true ideal sports franchise owner, bringing a level of blue-collar fandom backed up by his enormous bank account. He has lavished unlimited resources to making his team the best it can be, watches every game from the stands adorned in his team’s gear and has made an art form of brazenly criticizing the establishment to the tune of over a million dollars in fines. The most recent was a $200,000 penalty for running out onto the court after a Mavericks playoff loss to the San Antonio Spurs to complain about
the officiating. The NBA powers that be penalized Cuban again yesterday to the tune of $250.000 for his controversial comments following the Mavericks’ overtime loss to the Heat Sunday. “I’m fine with it,” Cuban said in a written statement. “Get the humor there. Fine with it.” While some may deem his behavior immature, Cuban’s temper tantrums have a silver lining, as he has made it standard practice to match his NBA fines with philanthropic donations to various charities. Whereas most professional sports owners have morphed into “fat cat” old-money types sipping Dom Perignon in their luxury boxes, faceless corporations or fly-by-night smoke-and-mirrors financiers, Cuban stands out as an owner who actually cares more about winning games than profit margins. With a fortune akin to Fort Knox backing him up, the mop-headed entrepreneur makes no bones about saying and doing whatever he wants, a billionaire with a heart of gold and childlike lust for life.
D’Alessio before Horton would call upon ace starting pitcher Wes Roemer to close the game out. He would get the final two outs and close the game for the Titans. Gagnier would give up six runs in 6 2/3 innings, but settled down when the Titans looked as if they were not going to score any more runs that they did in the top of the first inning. “That’s the biggest transformation in him this year,” Horton said. “In his breakout year is that he is able to get through rough spots. I thought he’d
continue to do what he did and he ended up doing it.” Gagnier said it was awesome for the Titan bullpen to pick him up. “Our bullpen hasn’t been getting used that much,” Gagnier said. “Wes isn’t one of our bullpen guys, but Jorgenson saved me on four earned runs here already in the College World Series. Friday night he picked me up with two runners on base and he picked me up with two of my runners on base. I got to get him a present or something after the game – it was a good deal.”
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Titans Win Game Three Late-inning heroics advance CSUF to next round against North Carolina BY LAURENS ONG Summer Titan Sports Editor
The Titan baseball team has clawed and scratched their way throughout Omaha and Tuesday was no exception. Playing the third-longest game in College World Series history at just over four hours, the Titans (2-1) came back from a 6-3 deficit to win 7-6 and eliminate the Clemson Tigers from the College World Series. “Our guys just don’t quit,” Titan Head Coach George Horton said. “Good team, whatever – they just kept grinding it out and find a way to come out on top.” After Titan third baseman Evan McArthur tied the game in the top of the seventh inning, designated hitter David Cooper hit what would be the game-winning RBI in the eighth – a bloop single to center field to break a 6-6 tie. “He stepped up huge, for him to have a game like that,” McArthur said. “It allowed us to live another day. I think that is a big thing for a freshman to come in and do that – for anybody, let alone a freshman – so we all appreciate it. ” With four crucial outs, Titan reliever Adam Jorgenson would pick up the win for the Titans. The game got off to a shaky start for both teams. After throwing only 19 pitches, Clemson starting pitcher Jason Berken was removed after the Titans had jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the top of the first inning. The Titan lead would not last long as Clemson would roar back to score three runs in the bottom of the first in-
ning of Titan starter Lauren Gagnier, who was suffering from food poisoning. Clemson would score one more run in the bottom of the second to take a 4-3 lead. “I didn’t think he was throwing that poorly,” Horton said. The Tigers would score two more runs in the bottom of the fourth inning and reliever P.J. Zocchi would hold the Titans scoreless until the top of the seventh inning. Titan outfielder Danny Dorn fought through an 11-pitch at-bat and singled. Cooper, who finished the game 5-for-5 with four RBIs, then stepped up to the plate and connected to right field for a two-run homerun to bring the Titans within one run against Zocchi. “Well, this is obviously an unbelievable event here and it’s very exciting,” Cooper said. “I just got some pitches to hit today and they just fell. I got a couple of lucky ones.” In relief against the Titans, Zocchi would allow seven hits and two runs in six innings pitched. For the Titans, McArthur would be in the middle of the action all game long. With the bases loaded in the top of the fifth inning, McArthur would ground out to shortstop for a fielder’s choice that would force out the runner advancing from first base. With one out in the bottom of the inning for the Tigers, McArthur might have just made the defensive play of the game. He made a diving stab on a line drive hit by Clemson’s D.J. Mitchell and fired to Titan second baseman Justin Turner to nail the runner coming off second base, looking to advance to third.
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Titan Justin Turner looks to throw to first base after tagging out a Clemson player at Game Three of the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska, which took place yesterday.
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