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The Bay Area's newest rock star is Jeremy Lin, an undrafted rookie guard from Harvard whose primary résumé item until recently was being the first player in Ivy League history to record 1,450 points, 450 rebounds, 400 assists and 200 steals. The Dallas Mavericks were the only team to extend Lin an invitation to summer league to play behind highly touted guards Roddy Beaubois and Dominique Jones. Then something phenomenal occurred in Las Vegas: Lin matched No. 1 overall draft pick John Wall possession for possessio down the stretch of Lin's fourth summer league game. How important is the [Asian-American]...

At the big Oprah-headlined rally for Barack Obama in Los Angeles on Saturday, surprise guest Maria Shriver, California's First Lady, cited -- as one of a string of reasons why the state's Democrats should vote for the Senator from Illinois -- the fact that, like California, he was "diverse." In the wake of Super Tuesday, we've learned that such diversity doesn't necessarily include Latinos, especially those older than 30. But a self-congratulatory article in the India Express touting the influence of Indian-Americans in the Democratic primary process reveals even greater constraints on the appeal of Obama's diversity. In California, exit...

For Lillie Epps, one of the few African-American leaders in the anti-abortion movement, it was a telling moment. Epps was among top anti-abortion advocates who had gathered in the Oval Office of the White House last year to watch President George W. Bush sign into law a bill banning so-called "partial-birth" abortions. "When he signed the bill, there were some other African-Americans in the room," recalled Epps, 52. But when it came time for publicity photographs, some were ushered out, including all of the black leaders. "That sends a message that it's really not an African-American issue," said Epps, of...

Wanded for being nonwhite By Terry Hong WASHINGTON – "Call it as you see it," one of my editors says to me as we exchange stories of travel hassles. So let me do so in national print: Racial profiling is rampant in airports. "Random computer-determined searches," I'm told. "Your ticket has been randomly flagged," they insist. "We're searching every eighth person," I hear. E-mail this story Write a letter to the Editor Printer-friendly version Related stories: 10/08/02 Metro D.C. seeks calm amid gunfire 01/23/02 Book lovers fail to click with e-pages 12/26/01 A New Year prayer from an Israeli doctor...

<p>LOS ANGELES- Yuji Ichioka, a University of California-Los Angeles historian who coined the term "Asian American" in the 1960s, has died at the age of 66, university officials said.</p> <p>Ichioka, who helped to found the UCLA Asian American Studies Center in 1969, was considered one of the top U.S. specialists on Japanese American history. He died on Sept. 1 of cancer, the Los Angeles Times said on Saturday.</p>