In keeping with its namesake, Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park is a monument to hope, to the future. Most days, its most notable feature is the Peace Wall, with its hand-drawn tiles made by children around the world, each wishing for the end of war. -more-
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The above statements are pulled from a recent conversation with teacher and poet Grace Morizawa at her home in Berkeley. -more-
Berkeley to face nemesis O’Dowd for NCS championship Saturday -more-
Better get wishing – if Jiminy Cricket was right, there’s no way your wishes won’t come true this weekend. Astronomers predict this year’s Leonid meteor shower will be the best in 30 years. -more-
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Eastern Washington shocks No. 10 St. Joseph’s in BCA Classic opener -more-
Free AC Transit bus passes for students from low-income families may become a reality next year, but only if the Bay Area’s regional transit board votes next month to subsidize a program that will benefit Alameda and Contra Costa counties. -more-
California women’s basketball head coach Caren Horstmeyer announced Thursday the signing of one of the top junior college post players in the country and two outstanding prep athletes. Timea Ivanyi, Renee Wright and Sarah Pool have all signed National Letters of Intent to play basketball at Cal beginning with the 2002-03 season. -more-
The Planning Commission took action on two controversial city issues during its meeting Wednesday night. -more-
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SAN FRANCISCO — The budget outlook for the University of California is bleak, with cuts likely this year and next that may force officials to cap enrollment and increase student fees. -more-
Now that the recently-approved redistricting plan has apparently been thwarted, the bitterly divided City Council will have to pick up the pieces and start the process again. -more-
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WASHINGTON — The Navy has dropped plans to use an old military base between Big Sur and the Hearst Castle as a practice range for 3,000 bombing missions a year. -more-
The day before a citizen’s group submitted a petition with more than 8,000 signatures challenging a recently-approved redistricting plan, the City Council began considering options to prevent U.S. Census Bureau blunders from throwing a highly political process into chaos. -more-
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Nadia El-Guendy faces an anguishing choice: If she doesn’t return to Egypt next month, she may not see her 75-year-old father again. But if she leaves the country, she fears she might not be allowed to return and finish her Ph.D. in microbiology at the University of Kentucky. -more-
If you have a fireplace mantel, you have the ideal spot to showcase trimmings for the year-end holidays. You also have a firebox below to add holiday glow and sparkle with a crackling fire or with the gentle twinkle of candles. -more-
It was in the 2000 big-screen blockbuster “Charlie’s Angels” that one angel, Alex, played by Lucy Liu, displayed her lack of baking skills. To woo her boyfriend, Alex whipped up blueberry muffins. The baked goods turned out to be better weapons than enticers. One of the angels hurled one across a room, only to have it lodge in a hollow-core door. The other angels appropriately dubbed Alex’s quick breads “Chinese Fighting Muffins.” -more-
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For gardeners, Thanksgiving is a special holiday, a time to celebrate the harvest and put it on the table, just as the Pilgrims did hundreds of years ago. Most gardeners today grow some form of the traditional fare of corn, beans, or squash. But do you know anyone who grows cranberries? -more-
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SUNNYVALE — Yahoo! Inc. will cut 400 jobs, more than 12 percent of its work force, as it reorganizes in search of “sustainable, profitable growth,” the Internet company told analysts Thursday. -more-
SAN FRANCISCO — Crippled credit card issuer Providian Financial Corp. endured another Wall Street beating Thursday as investors expressed disappointment with the company’s turnaround efforts and news that its loan losses continued to rise in October. -more-
SAN JOSE — Not many high-tech companies talk openly about the proposed Microsoft antitrust settlement. Even fewer criticize the deal in public, despite private misgivings. -more-
SAN JOSE — Test-and-measurement equipment maker Agilent Technologies Inc. will cut another 4,000 jobs despite meeting Wall Street’s expectations in its fiscal fourth quarter. -more-
REDWOOD CITY — Troubled Internet music company Liquid Audio will lay off 15 percent of its work force, the second round of deep staff cuts announced by the company this year. -more-
SAN JOSE — The Santa Clara Valley Water District is slated to receive $46.8 million in federal money for projects to control flooding and protect wildlife and habitat, the district announced Wednesday. -more-
SALT LAKE CITY — Networking software company Novell said Thursday it will cut 1,400 jobs — about 19 percent of its work force — in an effort to save money in a weak market. -more-
A UC Berkeley student organization protested labor violations Thursday by staging a baseball game at Sather Gate: “The Workers” vs. “The Bosses.” Their goal was to raise awareness of workers’ rights -more-
LOS ANGELES — Saying she “cannot plead guilty when I am not,” 1970s radical Sara Jane Olson renounced her plea agreement stemming from charges of attempting to blow up police cars in a Symbionese Liberation Army conspiracy to murder officers. -more-
Citizens for Fair Representation held a press conference on the steps of the Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Wednesday to announce the newly formed group had collected more than 8,000 signatures during a petition drive to challenge a redistricting plan, which the City Council approved last month. -more-
924 Gilman St. Nov. 16: Pitch Black, The Blottos, Miracle Chosuke, 240; Nov. 17: Carry On, All Bets Off, Limp Wrist, Labrats, Thought Riot; Nov. 18: 5 p.m., Mad Caddies, Monkey, Fabulous Disaster, Over It; Nov. 23: The Stitches, Starvations, Neon King Kong, Kill Devil Hills, Problem; Nov. 24: Tilt, Missing Link, Cry Baby Cry; Nov. 30: Shitlist, Atrocious Madness, Fuerza X, Catheter, S Bitch, Delta Force; All shows start a 8 p.m. unless noted; Most are $5; 924 Gilman St. 525-9926 -more-
The Berkeley High girls’ volleyball team survived a minor scare Tuesday night, coming back from a first-game loss to beat Antioch in the first round of the North Coast Section playoffs in Berkeley. -more-
A union representing clerical workers and librarians at UC Berkeley issued a strong condemnation of the university’s transportation policies on Wednesday. -more-
Richard Midgley and David Paris, both seniors at 2001 state runner-up Modesto Christian High School, have signed National Letters of Intent to play basketball at Cal, head coach Ben Braun announced Wednesday. -more-
For nine years Ameena Jandali, 41, of El Cerrito has been going out into the community, mostly to high schools, to educate Americans on the basics of Islam. -more-
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Two Berkeley High seniors signed official letters of intent on Wednesday. -more-
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SAN FRANCISCO — The Green Party, hoping to continue its growth in California, announced its candidates for the state’s two highest offices Wednesday and said it supports a move toward instant runoff elections. -more-
Yokers, Moser second teamers -more-
SAN FRANCISCO — Almost half the families visiting Bay Area emergency food services have one or more people working, according to study on hunger released Wednesday. -more-
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This tribute to and obituary of Ted Rosenkrantz was -more-
SAN FRANCISCO — A University of California regents committee voted Wednesday to start looking at prospective students as more than the sum of their grades and transcripts, taking into account what kind of personal struggles they went through to arrive at those numbers. -more-
BAKERSFIELD — Cutting down their options, California’s high-speed rail planners discarded dozens of potential route alignments and stations Wednesday and ruled out magnetic levitation trains in favor of slower, more conventional alternatives. -more-
• SAN FRANCISCO TO SAN JOSE — The board said using the existing Caltrain corridor and sharing track with the slower commuter trains was the only “realistic alternative” even though that approach would reduce the number of daily high-speed trains between the two cities. The board dropped the idea of creating a separate high-speed line in the Caltrain corridor or creating a high-speed line that would follow Highway 101. -more-
LOS ALTOS — A Los Altos investment banker was aboard American Airlines Flight 587, which crashed into a residential New York City neighborhood Monday, destroying homes and killing all 260 passengers and crew. -more-
WASHINGTON — The first in a new class of therapy for rheumatoid arthritis won federal approval Wednesday, although studies show Kineret promises just modest effectiveness. -more-
SAN ANTONIO — SBC Communications Inc. and Yahoo! Inc. unveiled a marketing alliance Wednesday to provide high-speed Internet service and other Web-based products in the 13 states served by SBC. -more-
SAN JOSE — Hewlett-Packard Co. shares rose 9 percent Wednesday after the high-tech giant’s fourth-quarter earnings beat analyst estimates, possibly strengthening the company’s hand as it tries to win support for its $23.7 billion acquisition of Compaq Computer Corp. -more-
People listen as a woman sings of loneliness on the steps of Old City Hall Tuesday night during a candlelight vigil in memory of the homeless who have died this year. -more-
It’s been said that 1,000 years from now the most enduring American contributions to the world will be the Constitution, baseball and jazz. We might like to think of that as our legacy, but the most visible icons of America will probably be the curvy script of Coca-Cola and the rounded ears of Mickey Mouse. -more-
924 Gilman St. Nov. 16: Pitch Black, The Blottos, Miracle Chosuke, 240; Nov. 17: Carry On, All Bets Off, Limp Wrist, Labrats, Thought Riot; Nov. 18: 5 p.m., Mad Caddies, Monkey, Fabulous Disaster, Over It; Nov. 23: The Stitches, Starvations, Neon King Kong, Kill Devil Hills, Problem; Nov. 24: Tilt, Missing Link, Cry Baby Cry; Nov. 30: Shitlist, Atrocious Madness, Fuerza X, Catheter, S Bitch, Delta Force; All shows start a 8 p.m. unless noted; Most are $5; 924 Gilman St. 525-9926 -more-
After taking a year off from volleyball, Emily Friedman approached Berkeley High coach Justin Caraway this summer and asked him if she could play for the team again for her senior season. -more-
In an attempt to kick-start the holiday shopping season, Mayor Shirley Dean, along with representatives from the Chamber of Commerce announced the Shop Berkeley $2,000 Sweepstakes Tuesday. -more-
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The Planning Commission will make recommendations on two long-standing, controversial city issues tonight – rules for new cellular phone antennae and a moratorium on the conversion of factory space into offices in parts of West Berkeley. -more-
Following is a copy of a letter originally sent to Councilmember Dona Spring: -more-
To those who knew her, the name Alice Sachs Hamburg is synonymous with both peace and activism. -more-
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A man told police he was the victim of hate speech on Friday, according to Lt. Cynthia Harris of the Berkeley Police Department. -more-
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OAKLAND — A proposed University of California admissions policy aims to look at prospective students as more than the sum of their transcript and test scores. -more-
SANTA ANA — A judge’s ruling on the application of Proposition 13 could cost cities and counties millions of dollars and mean lower property taxes for thousands of homeowners. -more-
BOMBAY BEACH — A series of minor earthquakes rattled the Salton Sea area Tuesday but apparently caused no injuries or damage. -more-
SANTA ANA — A sanity hearing for mass killer Edward Charles Allaway began Tuesday before an Orange County judge who will decide whether Allaway is fit to be released from a state mental hospital. -more-
WASHINGTON — Ronald Reagan’s childhood home would become a federal historic site under a bill passed by the House on Tuesday. -more-
SAN JOSE — Spending on information technology in the United States is expected to rise just 1.5 percent in 2002, a relatively small increase that nonetheless offers some hope for the troubled high-tech sector, according to a new survey. -more-
Deal made as life support for bankrupt company -more-
LAS VEGAS — Oracle Corp.’s chief executive said the database software giant likely will fall short of Wall Street’s earnings estimates for its fiscal second quarter. -more-
The City Council will discuss possible strategies tonight in case a citizen’s group collects enough signatures to challenge the city’s recently-approved redistricting plan. -more-
The recent letters in the Berkeley Daily Planet by Councilmember Hawley and her Planning Commissioner David Tabb were filled with distortions regarding redistricting plan adopted by the City Council majority. The right wing opponents of the plan seem to think that the more they distribute disinformation about the plan, the more people will begin to believe these untruths. They’re attacking the process (which they have misconstrued) because they wanted a different outcome. -more-
924 Gilman St. Nov. 16: Pitch Black, The Blottos, Miracle Chosuke, 240; Nov. 17: Carry On, All Bets Off, Limp Wrist, Labrats, Thought Riot; Nov. 18: 5 p.m., Mad Caddies, Monkey, Fabulous Disaster, Over It; Nov. 23: The Stitches, Starvations, Neon King Kong, Kill Devil Hills, Problem; Nov. 24: Tilt, Missing Link, Cry Baby Cry; Nov. 30: Shitlist, Atrocious Madness, Fuerza X, Catheter, S Bitch, Delta Force; All shows start a 8 p.m. unless noted; Most are $5; 924 Gilman St. 525-9926 -more-
There’s hunger in Berkeley. -more-
At tonight’s meeting, the City Council will consider a series of measures suggested by Mayor Shirley Dean to better prepare the city to respond to acts of terrorism. The measures come out of a recent meeting of the United States Conference of Mayors, which Dean attended along with representatives from the City Manager’s Office and the police, fire and health departments. -more-
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SAN FRANCISCO — Despite light Veterans’ Day traffic, the season’s first major storm caused transportation nightmares Monday across the San Francisco Bay area. -more-
SAN LEANDRO – San Leandro officials have shut down a Kmart store after a large portion of the roof collapsed early Monday morning. -more-
NEW YORK — Robert Treuhaft, an attorney prominent in San Francisco leftist circles and the region’s civil rights movement since the 1940s, died Sunday after a brief illness. He was 89. -more-
SAN FRANCISCO — All trucks heading to the Golden Gate Bridge were stopped and inspected Sunday in a security move requested by Gov. Gray Davis’ anti-terrorism advisers. -more-
MENLO PARK — Gays, lesbians and bisexuals feel more accepted by society today than a few years ago, but about the same percentage say they have experienced discrimination because of their sexual orientation. -more-
SACRAMENTO — For all of California’s congested humanity, its residents still prefer, even more than most Americans, a house and back yard in the suburbs. -more-
News of an airplane crash jangled the nerves of travelers in California, many already on edge since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. -more-
HOUSTON — Executives of Dynegy Inc. and Enron Corp. believe their plan to merge the nation’s two dominant energy marketing companies will overcome federal antitrust scrutiny, leading to a completed deal by next summer. -more-
Consumer mega-spending of the ‘90s is on the backlash -more-
REDWOOD CITY — Excite AtHome has agreed to sell parts of the Excite.com Internet portal to InfoSpace Inc. for $10 million, a deal that will require the approval of a bankruptcy court. -more-
NEW YORK — Janet Barasso ran blindly through thick, black smoke with her two sons Monday and feared the worst after an American Airlines jetliner crashed just a block from her home. -more-
Human sprit prevails at BOSS graduation -more-
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Cal still winless heading into Big Game -more-
Hundreds of college students from all over the west gathered in Berkeley this weekend for the California Schools Against War conference. The conference combined informational talks with meetings focused on strategies for organizing students against the U.S.-led bombing of Afghanistan. -more-
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With a NCAA playoff berth possibly on the line, All-American Laura Schott scored a golden goal in the 118th minute to lift No. 17 California to a 1-0 victory over USC in the final regular season game Sunday afternoon at Edwards Stadium. -more-
Boy Scout’s anti-gay stance blamed -more-
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No. 3 Stanford scored midway through the first half and never looked back as it shutout out rival California, 2-0, in front of 1105 spectators at Edwards Stadium Sunday afternoon. -more-
GRANTS PASS, Ore. — Ken Kesey, who railed against authority in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and orchestrated an LSD-fueled bus ride that helped immortalize the psychedelic 1960s, died Saturday two weeks after cancer surgery to remove 40 percent of his liver. He was 66. -more-
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COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Syracuse scored an overtime goal, topping No. 17 California, 2-1, to advance to the second round of the 2001 NCAA Tournament Saturday afternoon at Artificial Turf Facility on the University of Maryland campus. -more-
They came from all over Alameda County. Some stood at attention in their service uniforms, caps adorned with patches and gold cording, while others sat at attention in their motorized wheelchairs. -more-
SACRAMENTO – California counties got a windfall that will total more than $10 billion over 25 years with the 1998 settlement of a multistate lawsuit against the tobacco industry. -more-
SAN FRANCISCO – A newspaper reported Sunday that San Francisco school officials misspent tens of millions during the past 13 years, leaving many schools to wallow in decrepit and unsafe conditions. -more-
LOS ANGELES – An American flag carried in honor of victims of the Sept. 11 attacks arrived here Sunday, concluding a 3,872-mile cross-country trip that symbolically completed the journey of the four California-bound jetliners destroyed by terrorists. -more-
BEVERLY HILLS – Top Hollywood executives and a senior White House official met behind closed doors Sunday to discuss the entertainment industry’s role in the war on terrorism, emerging with warm mutual praise but few specifics. -more-
SAN FRANCISCO – California’s jobless rate rose from 5.4 percent to 5.7 percent last month, tracking a jump in the national unemployment rate as companies cut production and fired workers in response to the lagging economy. -more-
Investment will keep company, $65 million in debt, afloat -more-
The area immediately north of the University campus, bounded by Hearst Avenue on the south, Cedar Street on the north, Spruce Street on the west, and Highland Place on the east was subdivided in the late 1880s by a man named Daley, who called his subdivision Daley's Scenic Park. -more-
There has been a lot said recently about free speech in the United States, yet here in Berkeley – birthplace of the free speech movement in the 1960s – the radical left is using their slim majority on the Berkeley City Council to silence their critics and suppress the will of the majority of the people in Berkeley. It is time for progressives to speak out about what really has been happening in Berkeley. -more-
“The Man Who Wasn’t There,” the latest movie from the consistently inventive Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan, takes place in 1949 Santa Rosa and was filmed in the California towns of Orange and Pasadena. -more-
The St. Mary’s football team used and inspired defensive effort and a superlative effort from quarterback Steve Murphy to take down Piedmont, 20-15, on Friday night, winning the BSAL title an an automatic berth in the North Coast Section playoffs. -more-
Say standardized testing is devisive -more-
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The Cal women’s soccer team continued its free-fall on Friday, losing 2-0 to UCLA. The loss, which dropped Cal to 3-4-1 in the Pac-10, puts the Bears on the verge of missing the NCAA Tournament. -more-
Claims to have collected 4,000 signatures for a March ballot challenge -more-
SAN FRANCISCO — Measure I, which would have created an independent municipal utility district similar to one in Sacramento, was defeated Friday, and the other public power initiative, Proposition F, appeared headed for defeat with only a few thousand votes to count. -more-
More than 300 people brought their flags, banners and life-size puppets to San Francisco's Justin Herman Plaza today to demonstrate against the Qatar World Trade Organization meeting. -more-
Imagine that a nuclear warhead was sent to this country in a container on a ship to be blown up by terrorists. That’s the scenario Scott Sagan, a Stanford University professor, painted for an audience on Thursday. -more-
Administrators up to 25 percent; staff and faculty less than 2 percent increase -more-
SAN FRANCISCO — O.J. Simpson’s mother, Eunice Simpson, was found dead in her home of natural causes Friday morning, the medical examiner’s office said. She was 80. -more-
What a great time of year to be outdoors! Cool weather is enjoyable as long as you can warm up by moving around. A good way to fan that internal fire is to dig holes. -more-
Rain or shine, it’s hard to get seeds to germinate this time of year because the summer sun quickly dries the soil. And there are plenty of seeds still to sow, including biennial and perennial flowers, and fall vegetables. -more-
Veterans Day expected to bring in large crowds, despite economy -more-
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — The discovery of the mummified body of a 94-year-old woman inside a chest in a shed near the Oregon border has resulted in murder charges against a man who lived at the woman’s home. -more-
SAN FRANCISCO — When Houston-based Dynegy Inc. announced Friday that it had bought Enron, its larger rival for $7.8 billion shares of stock, some energy traders predicted fluctuating power prices in the coming months throughout the West as the market settles into a new hierarchy with one fewer provider. -more-
Six years after a heart transplant saved her life, Kelly Perkins braved cold, thin air to scale 19,340-foot-high Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa. -more-
SANTA MONICA — California may target the tailpipe in a bid to reduce emissions of the greenhouse gases scientists believe are behind global warming. -more-
SACRAMENTO — Disabled students will not be able to use calculators, audiotapes and other aids when taking the state’s new high school exit exam under new rules the state Board of Education approved. -more-
LOS ANGELES — The new Harry Potter movie heading to theaters next week has enflamed a small legion of conservative Christian critics who claim the boy wizard is a tool leading children to witchcraft and sin. -more-
SAN FRANCISCO — California’s jobless rate rose from 5.4 percent to 5.7 percent last month, tracking a jump in the national unemployment rate as companies cut production and fired workers in response to the lagging economy. -more-
East Bay advertising agencies are beginning to feel the belt-tightening as clients cut their budgets to save a little money for what is becoming more of an uncertain economic future every day. -more-
GRANTS PASS, Ore. — Ken Kesey, the acid-dropping Merry Prankster who wrote the 1960s novel “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” lay in critical condition Friday after cancer surgery on his liver. -more-
It’s been 40 years since they fought segregation in the Deep South -more-
LOS ANGELES — Brimming with a renewed sense of patriotism and respect for the military, Americans across the country are turning out this holiday to honor veterans and remember the heroes from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. -more-
LONG BEACH — Although the nation’s largest public university system is turning out a record number of new teachers, a quarter of them don’t believe they are well enough prepared to teach math and English in kindergarten through eighth grade. -more-
SAN FRANCISCO — Bay Area gasoline prices have plunged to their lowest levels since February 2000 because of the stumbling economy and the recent terrorist attacks, a recent report shows. -more-
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LIVERMORE — Many people associate the Altamont Pass with bumper-to-bumper traffic, but a few folks have had more soothing experiences on the range separating the Bay Area and the Central Valley. -more-
SAN FRANCISCO — The United Nations Environment Program has awarded Huey D. Johnson the Sasakawa Environment Prize for 40 years of environmental work. -more-
Public power measures still in doubt -more-
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge ruled Friday that the Bay Area’s transportation authority must increase use of public transit throughout the region. -more-
