Antero Alli, the director of “Hysteria” was born in Finland and grew up in Toronto, Canada. He moved to the Bay Area at age 19 in 1972 and stayed for 10 years. Alli also resided in the Portland and Seattle areas before returning to the Bay Area in 1996. -more-
It isn’t fun to face DaShawn Freeman on a basketball court. Even when you’re winning. -more-
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Three Latino social service agencies were closed down Monday after their respective mail rooms received derogatory letters accompanied by a suspicious white powder. -more-
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About 150 UC Berkeley students descended on the state Capitol in Sacramento Monday to speak to legislators about student housing, student fees and the University of California’s system-wide budget in the first-ever “Cal Lobby Day.” -more-
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The wheelchair-bound Dede Dewey has been a precinct worker for the past 16 years. The Berkeley resident with short gray hair and eyeglasses, said she was the first disabled person in Alameda County to become a precinct worker. -more-
Today is Tuesday, March 12, the 71st day of 2002. There are 294 days left in the year. -more-
Hundreds of RNs met on new nurse-ratio law and demanded reform of Kaiser Permanente’s arbitration system, which restricts the ability of patients to challenge managed care abuses. -more-
MENDOCINO — It took a lawn mower and a mild summer day for Jim McCummings to create a pathway to the Mendocino Bay Viewpoint and its sweeping vistas of the craggy Northern California coast. -more-
The Berkeley Police Department is keeping tight-lipped about the arrest of the owner/operator of the Normandy Massage Studio for “suspicion of pimping, pandering and conspiracy.” -more-
SAN JOSE — Two Hewlett-Packard Co. directors warned Monday that many board members and some of the company’s top executives might quit if shareholders reject the $22.6 billion purchase of Compaq Computer Corp. next week. -more-
SAN FRANCISCO — The record labels blame online song swapping from services such as Napster for taking away valuable customers. In reaction, the labels have created their own legitimate online services for monthly subscribers. -more-
The Berkeley Police Department reports that a man was shoot twice early Saturday morning at the intersection of Channing Way and San Pablo Avenue. -more-
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Officials at the University of California at Berkeley are scheduling an open house today to answer questions and inform the public about plans for new student housing near the Southside neighborhood near campus. -more-
The National Nuclear Security Administration announced this week that scientists at the Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos national laboratories have completed two of the largest computer simulations ever attempted and created the first full-system, three-dimensional simulations of a nuclear explosion. -more-
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Andrew Hintz, a UC Berkeley senior and member of Cal Democrats said, that recent casualties in Afghanistan hasn’t weakened his support for the war. -more-
Today is Monday, March 11, the 70th day of 2002. There are 295 days left in the year. -more-
LOS ANGELES — Some 500 friends and relatives of Daniel Pearl remembered the slain journalist Sunday as intelligent and sometimes clumsy, but always generous and committed to changing the world. -more-
SAN DIEGO — After Sept. 11, a wave of fear swept through this beach town, better known for its sun, surf and laid-back attitude. -more-
officials divided on whether the war is winding down or taking shape -more-
SAN FRANCISCO – J. Eugene McAteer High School, an educational dumping ground where poorly performing students often were assigned, will close permanently at year’s end. -more-
WALNUT CREEK – A Walnut Creek pharmacist will be forced to surrender his license at the end of the month, after his business mixed a batch of medicine linked to an outbreak of illness and three meningitis deaths in June. -more-
SAN FRANCISCO – An African American deputy probation officer in Marin County was awarded $1.6 million in damages in a civil rights suit. -more-
LOS ANGELES – As The Walt Disney Co. struggles to rapidly resuscitate ABC, the entertainment giant is looking to use the muscle of its ESPN cable sports network to bolster its flagging media division. -more-
Extension employees have been negotiating with the university for better wages during the past six months -more-
Jewish music will take center stage in Berkeley for the next two weeks, but many people may be surprised by what they hear. -more-
When the St. Mary’s High boys’ basketball team faces off against top-ranked Oakland Tech in a Northern California Division I semifinal game tonight, there aren’t likely to be many surprises on either side. -more-
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‘There are no risks for us in Hollywood. We deliver the bill or the dry-cleaning, do our karate chop and leave,” said actor Sung Kang at Thursday night’s opening of the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. -more-
LOS ANGELES – California improved by 34 points in a span of six days. It wasn’t nearly enough. -more-
California scored four runs in the fourth inning against rival Stanford Friday afternoon at Evans Field, jumping out to an early lead in the opener of the non-league series. But the Cardinal responded with seven runs in the seventh inning, then eight runs in the eighth, pounding the Bears 15-4. -more-
Power has been restored to all but three buildings on the UC Berkeley campus after a blackout on Thursday. Etcheverry Hall, North Gate Hall and Soda Hall were still out of power Friday afternoon. -more-
Today is Saturday, March 9, the 68th day of 2002. There are 297 days left in the year. -more-
Berkeley police officers investigated a suspicious package found on the second floor of a state office building located at 1947 Center St. at around 6:30 p.m. Friday. -more-
MIDWAY, Utah – Laughter erupts from down the hall in the direction of the medical room. Cross country skiers hoot and holler as they plunge into a natural hot spring to work on their “lung capacity.” An anxious athlete lets go of her fears and steels her resolve to compete with a reassuring “I know I’ll be OK.” -more-
SAN FRANCISCO — After three days of ballot counting, Harry Britt conceded the Democratic nomination for state Assembly to Mark Leno on Friday in a race that is expected to ultimately send the first openly gay man to Sacramento. -more-
HALF MOON BAY — A body that washed up on shore Friday has been identified as one of two fishermen missing for nearly a week. -more-
Q. Volker asks: How do I change a leaking toilet tank? -more-
BEAVERTON, Ore. — The threat of terrorism has boosted military and corporate interest in high-tech security improvements at all levels, even turning something as simple as a chain-link fence into a sophisticated surveillance system. -more-
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Leukemia survivor Franklin headed into his last season at Berkeley High -more-
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LOS ANGELES – Ryan Forehan-Kelly tied his career high with 20 points and Amit Tamir’s inside basket snapped a tie with 1:39 remaining, lifting No. 25 California over UCLA 67-61 Thursday night in the first round of the Pacific-10 Conference tournament. -more-
It used to be that a trip to the doctor’s office would only get you some foul-tasting medicine. Oakland Children’s Hospital, however, hopes that every kid can go home with a book. -more-
The St. Mary’s-Oakland Tech Northern California Division I semifinal game on Saturday night will be played at California State University at Hayward, with tipoff tentatively set for 7:30 p.m. -more-
Today is Friday, March 8, the 67th day of 2002. There are 298 days left in the year. -more-
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LOS ANGELES — A young man who heard the fatal dog attack on Diane Whipple testified Thursday he thought it was a rape or domestic violence when screams echoed through a stairwell of a San Francisco apartment building. -more-
RENO, Nev. — A winter storm that dumped more than 2 feet of snow on parts of the Sierra Thursday restricted travel over all mountain passes and threatened to bring more snowfall over night. -more-
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The “lady of the forest” is in all her glory this time of year, her pure-white bark is especially lovely as she mingles with spruces and other dark-green evergreens. Unfortunately, the lady — a nickname for white birch — is often not nearly as happy in a suburban yard as she is in the forest. -more-
What if you were ready to plant your garden and had nowhere to buy seeds? In many parts of the world, each growing season is not heralded in with garden catalogs in mailboxes and seedpackets lined up on racks in stores. Rather, gardeners not only grow vegetables and flowers, but also the seeds for them. Here, you might want to grow some seeds to ensure a supply of a particular variety of vegetable or flower not readily, perhaps not always, available. -more-
Our father, although he had never worked in the trades, definitely was a handyman’s handyman. He loved his workshop. He favored plumbing, painting and carpentry, but was hesitant about doing electrical work. And, we never saw him do ceramic-tile work. -more-
PALO ALTO — Standard & Poor’s lowered the credit ratings for Hewlett-Packard Co. on Thursday, saying the potential benefits of the planned $22 billion acquisition of Compaq Computer Corp. are offset by the deal’s high risks. -more-
SAN FRANCISCO — Fast-growing online DVD rental service Netflix Inc. plans to raise $115 million with an initial public offering of its stock, providing another flicker of optimism in the depressed dot-com industry. -more-
SAN JOSE— Chip-maker Intel Corp. tightened the range of its first-quarter sales forecast Thursday, saying demand for PC processors remains stable but the communications chip business is weak. -more-
SAN FRANCISCO — Ailing credit card issuer Providian Financial Corp. on Thursday announced a deal to sell its Argentina operations to a group of Buenos Aires investors for an undisclosed sum. -more-
About 200 students walked out of Berkeley High School Wednesday afternoon and marched on to district headquarters protesting the move from a seven- to a six-period day beginning next fall. -more-
A furious third-quarter comeback wasn’t enough for the Berkeley Lady Yellowjackets as St. Ignatius (San Francisco) pulled off a 52-49 upset in a quarterfinal of the Northern California Section Division I playoffs. -more-
EDITOR'S NOTE: Fueling the worst Hindu-Muslim violence in Indian in nearly a decade is a new Hindu nationalism that adopts the militaristic rhetoric of today's world leaders. PNS Associate Editor Sandip Roy fears that an older form of Hinduism that could accept, absorb and change other cultures is being lost. Roy (sandiproy@hotmail.com) is host of “Upfront” – the Pacific News Service weekly radio program on KALW-FM, San Francisco. -more-
Jacki Fox Ruby, a California Federation of Teachers official, soundly defeated incumbent Jerome Wiggins Tuesday in the race for Alameda County Board of Education Trustee Area 1, bringing an end to an often nasty campaign. -more-
The St. Mary’s boys basketball team found their rhythm shortly before halftime, cruising to an eventual 74-58 victory over Oak Grove (San Jose) and moved one step closer to a CIF Northern Section crown. -more-
Right now, it is an empty section of railroad track blocked off on both sides by a cyclone fence. It used to be a hang-out for prostitutes and rowdy drinkers until the city erected these fences at Berkeley Way and University Avenue about 10 years ago. Now many groups in the city want to make it part of a landscaped pedestrian and bicycle corridor. -more-
A 36-year-old Oakland man was struck and killed by an eastbound local freight train early Wednesday morning. At 3:27 a.m. the train hit Kevin Raney, who was apparently lying on the tracks a quarter-mile north of Gilman Street, according to Charles Brewer, an investigator at the Alameda County Coroner’s Office. -more-
Today is Thursday, March 7, the 66th day of 2002. There are 299 days left in the year. -more-
SAN FRANCISCO — Democrats from Santa Cruz and San Francisco are set to become the first openly gay men in the California Legislature, joining three uncloseted lesbians in pushing an agenda that includes giving same-sex couples the same protections as married straight people. -more-
The Daily Planet inaccurately reported in its March 5 article, “City settles with UC for less than expected” that Councilmember Linda Maio made a motion to sue UC Berkeley over the Northeast Quadrant program. It was Councilmember Dona Spring who made the motion. -more-
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Wednesday to require any pipeline that would carry natural gas from Alaska’s North Slope to pass along a southern route through Alaska instead of an alternative route mainly through Canada. -more-
SAN JOSE — A small plane with three people aboard spun out of control and crashed into a canyon Wednesday, landing upside down. -more-
RENO, Nev. — It was slow going over the Sierra Nevada range Wednesday as a wet Pacific storm brought heavy snow to the Lake Tahoe region. -more-
WASHINGTON — Federal regulators on Wednesday approved the proposed $22 billion merger of Hewlett-Packard Co. and Compaq Computer Corp., a deal that would be the biggest in high-tech history. -more-
Shares of ImClone Systems Inc. surged more than 23 percent Wednesday on news the biotech company has settled its public feud with Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. over the handling of a $2 billion deal to co-market a highly touted experimental cancer drug. -more-
SAN FRANCISCO — California power regulators again have delayed a vote on a pair of proposals that either would end electricity competition in the state or only allow businesses with deals already in place to continue buying from an energy seller other than their local utility. -more-
At 1:00 a.m. the folks down at Loni Hancock for Assembly Headquarters were not only claiming victory — winning more than 50 percent of the preliminary returns in the 14th district assembly race — but were referring to it as a landslide victory. -more-
Cal third baseman Conor Jackson hit a grand slam in the bottom of the 10th inning to beat visiting Georgetown, 6-5, on Tuesday afternoon. -more-
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Berkeley City Councilmembers were not in their office yesterday — not because they were slacking off, but because they were getting the vote out. And it wasn’t even an election year. -more-
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Election night always tempts the tongue of pundits and insiders — to predict victory, defeat and the fate of future elections. But last night’s election proved to be a little less than illuminating as councilmember Linda Maio did not announce any intention to run for Mayor in Berkeley and Councilmember Kriss Worthington’s name was mentioned for the first time as a possible candidate. -more-
A local debate over gay rights, the Boy Scouts, the military and federal funding for education came to a boil Monday night at a meeting of the Peace and Justice Commission. -more-
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Superintendent Michele Lawrence, who proposed closing City of Franklin Microsociety Magnet School in January, laid out two options for saving the school in a meeting with parents Tuesday night. -more-
“I can’t say I wouldn’t have done the same thing, but I did think it was pretty shady,” said Berkeley City Councilmember Betty Olds about Gov. Gray Davis’ anti-Richard Riordan campaign that perhaps did not give Bill Simon the GOP primary but certainly did not hurt. -more-
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military is committing more aircraft to the battle with al-Qaida and Taliban holdouts in eastern Afghanistan, sending in five Marine Corps attack helicopters after enemy fire damaged Army copters. -more-
REDWOOD CITY — The Minnesota doctor accused of stabbing her son to death again blurted out in court Tuesday that she was guilty, this time saying she planned to commit the murder, wanted to be punished for the crime and asked for a death sentence or life in prison, according to the prosecution. -more-
If a report card was given out to American media based on their coverage of the Middle East, the grade would be barely passing, according to those who compare it to overseas coverage. -more-
A few changes in the Alameda County voting process meant that Berkeley voters in yesterday’s primary elections had to deal with more than hanging chads. -more-
SACRAMENTO (AP) — Gov. Gray Davis has appointed a former Edison International and Southern California Edison executive as the newest member of the Public Utilities Commission, the state agency that regulates Edison and other investor-owned utilities. -more-
WALNUT CREEK — An opening for a new city manager has attracted 67 applicants from across the country. -more-
SAN JOSE — A highly influential proxy research firm recommended Tuesday that Hewlett-Packard Co. investors approve the proposed $22 billion acquisition of Compaq Computer Corp., giving new life to HP’s efforts to complete the hotly contested deal. -more-
SANTA ANA — Microsoft Corp. agreed to pay more than $100,000 to settle a lawsuit filed on behalf of consumers claiming they were overbilled for Internet time, an Orange County prosecutor said Tuesday. -more-
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — PG&E Corp. reported sharply higher profits at its bankrupt utility on Tuesday and disclosed $64 million in employee bonuses, punctuating a stunning reversal of fortune in the power market over the past year. -more-
On Thursday upwards of 72 health care workers of the West Oakland Health Council went on a one-day strike opposing a 3.5 percent wage increase offered them by corporate management and today many are still waiting to be allowed to go back to work. -more-
LOS ANGELES — A collection of writings attributed to Malcolm X has surfaced under mysterious circumstances and is scheduled for auction, despite protests from the late civil rights leader’s relatives, who claim ownership of the items. -more-
Longfellow Middle School principal William Dwyer submitted a resignation letter Wednesday, obtained by the Planet, suggesting that he is disheartened by the district’s financial woes. -more-
