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Mom & Pop Crackdown
A city task force is aggressively suing business owners, some of whom are facilitating crime in their neighborhoods. And some of whom are just making donuts.
March 29, 2000
Girl, Interrupted
Alanna Krause believes that much of her hellish childhood could have been avoided. Now she's suing her father, her therapist, and her lawyer in an effort to prove it. How did it come to this?
December 18, 2002
Hard Lessons
Students without textbooks. Crumbling facilities. Rats. Spending time at Balboa High School can be a real education.
October 11, 2000
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Andrea Irvin's college bedroom is at once a suburban schoolgirl mecca and a shrine to the Republican Party. The UC Berkeley junior, who studies business and economics, has affixed a neat row of bumper stickers to her door ("Viva Bush!"…
by Bernice Yeung
May 12, 2004
Tags: Feature, Featured Stories, Andrea Irvin, Amaury Gallais, Berkeley, Berkeley Irvin
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In March 2000, Dr. Alvin Cooper, a clinical psychologist and an expert on the obviously marketable subject of sex and the Internet, made an appearance on The O'Reilly Factor. During the conversation, the host took an almost flippant tone with…
by Bernice Yeung
April 7, 2004
Tags: Feature, Featured Stories, MSNBC Interactive News LLC, Al Cooper, San Francisco, San Jose
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By Sasha Cagen HarperSanFrancisco (2003), $19.95 By now, you must have heard the term "quirkyalone," which, according to the official definition, is "a person who enjoys being single (but is not opposed to being in a relationship) and generally prefers…
by Bernice Yeung
February 25, 2004
Tags: Books, Books, Sasha Cagen, HarperCollins Publishers Inc., San Francisco
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Alice B. grew up in Bungoma, Kenya, a district near the border of Uganda with a distant view of the jagged, extinct volcano Mount Elgon. Surrounded by rolling hills and verdant, grassy fields, her hometown has soccer teams, Girl Scout…
by Bernice Yeung
February 18, 2004
Tags: Feature, Featured Stories, Kenya, John Rinaldi, California, Nalini Shekar
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In Monique Motyl's studio (which is really a room painted cotton-candy pink in her Alamo Square apartment), there is a bookshelf filled with plastic storage boxes in which she keeps her art supplies. Among the bins, which are overflowing with…
by Bernice Yeung
January 28, 2004
Tags: Dog Bites, Columns, Monique Motyl, Alamo Square, Josh Donald, Hollywood
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Adrian Freed, a bespectacled, middle-aged techie sporting a mop of unruly brown hair, swings open the door of the Guitar Center in El Cerrito with visible delight. Like a mountaineer taking in an exquisite vista, Freed pauses for a few…
by Bernice Yeung
January 7, 2004
Tags: Feature, Featured Stories, David Wessel, John Schott, Edmund Campion, Center for Computer Research
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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 psychological presence, and drive-by shootings were not a surprise. Built small and lean like a…
by Bernice Yeung
October 29, 2003
Tags: Feature, Featured Stories, Albert Johnson, Paul Myslin, San Pablo, Richmond
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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 that the killer could drink his blood. His chest and neck were vigorously…
by Bernice Yeung
October 29, 2003
Tags: Sidebar, Sidebar, Maurice Bork, Ricky Hunter, William McCray, Clifford St. Joseph
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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, 1994. The girl was found dead in her mother's bedroom, her legs protruding from…
by Bernice Yeung
October 29, 2003
Tags: Sidebar, Sidebar, Ludrate Burton, Obie Jacobs, Margaret McNeal, Alexius McNeal
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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. Brandishing a black semiautomatic gun, the thief jumped over the counter, ordered the tellers…
by Bernice Yeung
October 29, 2003
Tags: Sidebar, Sidebar, Christopher Taylor, Gilbert Benavides, Robert Mitchell, Bank of America Corporation
