Tonight, moreso than any previous Halloween, a gaggle of would-be Kim Jong-il’s will be saddling up to good-looking women at parties and warbling, “Tlick or tleat?” And if one or more of these Dear Leader dress-ups happens to be at the same place as a costumed Laura Ling, Euna Lee and-or Bill Clinton (or if a pint-sized Jong shows up tonight on the doorstep of Laura and husband Iain Clayton’s North Hollywood home), then August history may repeat itself in, respectively, amusing and awkward fashion. However, thanks to Japanese writer and long-time KJi conspiracy…
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Euna-Laura Trumps Linda-Monica
4 Oct 2009 | 10:29 amLast Wednesday evening at Fleming’s Prime Steak House in Sarasota, Florida, Bill Clinton received yet another impromptu standing ovation from a group of restaurant patrons, this time at the close of a day’s worth of golf playing and speech-making sponsored by the parents of Doug and Roger Band, close confidants who accompanied the President on his trip to North Korea. It was the latest vivid reminder of just how dramatically the conclusion brought about by Clinton to the arrest of Laura Ling and Euna Lee on March 17th, 2009 has eclipsed the stain of the Monica Lewinsky and Linda Tripp… -
North Korea’s Mata Hari
28 Sep 2009 | 12:06 pmAlthough Laura Ling and Euna Lee’s producer-cameraman Mitchell Koss greatly endangered North Korean refugees and their helpers by fleeing back to the Chinese side of the border on March 17th and thereby allowing the Chinese authorities to seize his camera footage, the fallout from his actions is nothing compared to that engendered by Won Jeong-hwa. As we approach the one-year anniversary of this 35-year-old’s time served in a South Korean jail (October 15th), it’s worth revisiting the @CurrentVanguard-worthy case of North Korea’s equivalent to the infamous Mata Hari. This North… -
The Queen of Six-Party Simulations
18 Sep 2009 | 12:52 pmAs we approach a seemingly inevitable restart of the Six-Party talks, many different experts are sharing what they think might happen when representatives from the U.S., China, Russia, Japan and South Korea try to cajole North Korea from brinksmanship to the brink of nuclear disarmament. But I would venture to say that no one at the moment has a more pragmatic sense of this setting than Nicole Marae Finneman, Director of Research and Academic Affairs at the Washington, D.C. based Korea Economic Institute (KEI). Over the past year and a half, through the prism of 730 individual participants… -
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15 Sep 2009 | 10:56 amLaura and Lisa Lisa Ling dined last week with Bill Clinton at the Almond bistro in New York and lunched with Hillary Clinton over the weekend at a branch of the Korean restaurant Woo Lae Oak in Vienna, Virginia. Quite the culinary capper to a summer that thrust two sisters, a former President and a current Secretary of State into a very tight diplomatic corner. If I were to apply the same questioning mentality to these meals as I did to other signpost events that led up to Laura and Euna Lee’s August 4th release, I would be asking things like: Did Bill and Hillary both personally pick up…
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LiberateLaura: Bill Altaffer, a.k.a. World's Most Traveled Man, on favorite exotic destination NK: "It's like Mars, with people." http://bit.ly/y2GRQ
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LiberateLaura: Watch: Colorfully dressed Pyongyang women, rehearsing NK allegiance song in shadow of giant statue [via @nnoborigin] http://bit.ly/1Kax1
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LiberateLaura: @USIP's John S. Park: One unintended result of U.N. NK sanctions may be rise of transnational crime syndicates. http://bit.ly/2EWIi3
6 Nov 2009 | 9:34 amLiberateLaura: @USIP's John S. Park: One unintended result of U.N. NK sanctions may be rise of transnational crime syndicates. http://bit.ly/2EWIi3 -
LiberateLaura: John Feffer @AsiaChronicle: Best thing journalists can do right now for U.S.-NK relations is NOT spill the beans. http://bit.ly/2CPz6V
6 Nov 2009 | 9:11 amLiberateLaura: John Feffer @AsiaChronicle: Best thing journalists can do right now for U.S.-NK relations is NOT spill the beans. http://bit.ly/2CPz6V -
LiberateLaura: @georgetown prof Victor Cha: The point of Bosworth's trip to NK, without actually saying so, could be to fail. http://bit.ly/2uszKSd
6 Nov 2009 | 9:03 amLiberateLaura: @georgetown prof Victor Cha: The point of Bosworth's trip to NK, without actually saying so, could be to fail. http://bit.ly/2uszKSd
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Description:For Laura and Euna. . .Week 21/Home with very happy families.A NEW BEGINING.WE ARE NOW GOING TO HELP IMPRISONED JOURNALISTS ALL OVER THE WORLD.Starting with Iran.The "Laura and Euna" page ( http://www.facebook.com/lauraandeuna?ref=ts )is now going to be working on bringing all imprisoned journalists home, including the 3 hikers.There is a large concentration in Iran, due to the recent elections.We are going to start there and focus our collective efforts to free the journalists.We will then keep moving.So. . . We need to educate ourselves.Find out which journalists are being held… -
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Marissa Mayer Chosen As A Glamour Magazine Woman Of The Year (TechCrunch)
6 Nov 2009 | 8:30 pm... powerhouses and icons including Maya Angelou, First Lady Michelle Obama, Susan Rice, Euna Lee and Laura Ling. Mayer has been frequently profiled in business and technology publications over the years, but it's also nice to see her achievements highlighted in magazines like Vogue and Glamour. The brainy Stanford-grad has been able to set an example for young women everywhere. As...Source : TechCrunch (subscribe)Explore : Entertainment, International, Internet, USA, Web 2.0 -
Notes From A War On Terror – Promo (BennyHollywood)
1 Nov 2009 | 8:04 pmVanguard correspondent Mariana van Zeller traveled to Sri Lanka during the final days of the country's civil war to see how one of the world's most powerful insurgencies, the Tamil Tigers, was finally defeated. Vanguard Presents: Notes from a War on Terror ***Vanguard is Current TV's original documentary series. Led by correspondents Laura Ling, Mariana van Zeller, Christof Putzel,...Source : BennyHollywood (subscribe)Explore : Crisis and conflicts, International -
Clinton May Not Have Actually Met With Kim Jong-Il When Obtaining Release of Journalists (Wizbang)
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New season of Current TV's "Vanguard" debuts for the first time since its reporters' detention (Everyday Ethics)
14 Oct 2009 | 7:13 amLos Angeles Times Matea Gold reports "Vanguard" hopes to eventually air its own story about what happened to Laura Ling and Euna Lee in North Korea. On tonight's show , Mariana van Zeller uses a hidden camera to investigate pain management clinics in Florida that supply OxyContin and other prescription drugs to addicts.Source : Everyday Ethics (subscribe)Explore : Entertainment, Euna Lee, International, Media, North Korea -
At the 'Vanguard' of the news again (L. A. Times Dodgers Blog)
13 Oct 2009 | 5:15 pmJust months after the release of two of its journalists, the Current TV program is back for a third season of its often-risky investigative reporting. 'It has been a very trying year,' one corresponde If Current TV journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee hadn't followed their guide across a frozen river separating China and North Korea on a fateful morning in March, their story about...Source : L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (subscribe)Explore : Euna Lee, International, North Korea
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Euna Lee, @LauraLing & @marissamayer make Glamour Mag's Women of the year http://su.pr/2A8viq
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Watchin Al Gore on TheView talkin about Laura Ling and Euna Lee. I hope he told them 2 keep their asses where the fuck they belong next time
7 Nov 2009 | 1:32 amWatchin Al Gore on TheView talkin about Laura Ling and Euna Lee. I hope he told them 2 keep their asses where the fuck they belong next time -
@justincobb is your specific beef my poke at Al Gore or Laura Ling?
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@chassysmith Laura Ling just doesn't have the same sexiness you exude.
6 Nov 2009 | 5:27 pm@chassysmith Laura Ling just doesn't have the same sexiness you exude. -
Laura Ling was captured by North Korea two years later.
6 Nov 2009 | 5:25 pmLaura Ling was captured by North Korea two years later.
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Marissa Mayer is one of Glamour's “Woman Of The Year” - Daily Contributor
6 Nov 2009 | 11:09 pmDaily ContributorMarissa Mayer is one of Glamour's “Woman Of The Year”Daily ContributorOther women on the list includes Rihanna, Marie Shiver, Stella mccartney, Amie Poehler, Serena Williams, Jane Aronson, Susan Rice, Euna Lee and Laura Ling, and more » -
Jurors qualified for Stanko murder trial - WPDE
6 Nov 2009 | 3:00 pmJurors qualified for Stanko murder trialWPDEIn April, 2005, Stephen Stanko murdered his girlfriend, Laura Ling, in Murrells Inlet, and raped her teenage daughter. The search for Stanko had folks in Death Row inmate competent for 2nd trialThe Stateall 2 news articles » -
SC death row inmate ruled competent for 2nd trial - CharlotteObserver.com
5 Nov 2009 | 3:35 amNews Channel 7SC death row inmate ruled competent for 2nd trialCharlotteObserver.comStanko has been sentenced to die for killing his live-in girlfriend, Laura Ling, and assaulting a teen on the same day. Stanko is being held on death row in Death row inmate returns to court in death of Conway manWMBFStanko ruled competent for trial in 2005 killingMyrtle Beach Sun Newsall 24 news articles » -
Rihanna Talks About Chris Brown Incident For First Time To Glamour - AHN
3 Nov 2009 | 10:29 amRihanna Talks About Chris Brown Incident For First Time To GlamourAHNRihanna was also chosen as one of Glamour's Women of the Year, along with journalists Lisa Ling and Euna Lee, Maria Shriver, Michelle Obama, and more » -
About Celebrity Worship - Middletown Journal
3 Nov 2009 | 10:13 amAbout Celebrity WorshipMiddletown Journal fashion designer Stella McCartney, Iranian women who fight for equality and journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling, who were arrested in North Korea. and more »
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North Korea produces plutonium with 'weapons potential'
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Doing business in North Korea
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North Korea calls for direct talks with U.S.
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South Korea accepts North's apology
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Report: North Korea open to nuke talks
6 Oct 2009 | 3:11 amNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Il has again indicated willingness to participate in bilateral talks with the United States and return to six-party talks over its nuclear program, China's Xinhua news agency reported.
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N. Korea Says It Has More Bomb-Grade Plutonium
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North Korea Calls for Talks With U.S.
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South Korea Offers Food Aid to North
26 Oct 2009 | 9:00 pmThe offer to ship 10,000 tons of corn to North Korea in what would be the first government-funded humanitarian aid for the North in nearly two years.
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China's using North Korea
7 Nov 2009 | 8:34 amARTICLE: In North Korea, the military now issues economic orders , By Blaine Harden, Washington Post , November 3, 2009 Important story on NorKo: if it does indeed contain almost $6T in mineral wealth, then I guess I would expect China to allow Kim's kleptocracy to continue concentrating itself on that flow, meaning no hope that China will do much ... -
Vacationing in Lovely... North Korea?
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US open to N.Korea visit
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Cuban Embassies Help Korean Farmers
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Hereford branch of British Korean Veterans Association honour Korean War dead
6 Nov 2009 | 10:56 amTHE Hereford branch of the British Korean Veterans Association is holding eight remembrance services this week.
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Timeline: IAEA
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Europa League as it happened
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World's barriers: Korean border
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Honduras: Investigate Abuses, Repeal Repressive Measures
30 Oct 2009 | 2:39 pm(Washington, DC) - The restoration of constitutional order in Honduras should be accompanied by the immediate repeal of repressive decrees issued by the de facto government, and a full investigation of abuses committed in the aftermath of the coup, Human Rights Watch said today. read more -
Libya: Drop Charges against Journalist
27 Oct 2009 | 10:49 am(New York) - The Libyan government should investigate allegations of sexual harassment in a state-run residence for women who had been orphaned instead of charging the journalist who reported the story with criminal defamation, Human Rights Watch said today. read more -
Tunisia: Elections in an Atmosphere of Repression
23 Oct 2009 | 11:53 am(New York) - Repressive acts and tight controls on the election process have tainted the prospects for free and fair presidential and legislative elections in Tunisia on October 25, 2009, Human Rights Watch said today. read more -
What an Olympic Glow can't Mask
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Banned, Censored, Harassed, and Jailed
11 Oct 2009 | 11:07 am(New York) - Human Rights Watch announced today that 37 writers from 19 countries have received the prestigious Hellman/Hammett award in recognition of their commitment to free expression and their courage in the face of political persecution. read more
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For Refugees, Australia Should Rethink the ‘Indonesia Solution’
6 Nov 2009 | 3:33 pmIn January, Australians saw shocking photos of young, emaciated men washing up on the shores of Sumatra. Australian television showed these Rohingyas, members of a Muslim ethnic minority systematically mistreated by Burma's military regime, describing how Thai authorities beat them and pushed them back out to sea. read more -
India: Protect Civilians in Anti-Maoist Drive
5 Nov 2009 | 1:43 pm(New York) - Government forces and anti-government Maoist fighters should ensure that civilians are protected during armed operations in central India and elsewhere, Human Rights Watch said today. read more -
India: Reveal Truth about Childbirth Deaths
4 Nov 2009 | 4:55 am(New York) - India is falling behind other countries in meeting international commitments to improve obstetric care because it does not adequately monitor deaths and injuries in the critical period following childbirth and fix gaps in its health system and programs, Human Rights Watch said today. read more -
Human Rights Angst Lingers In Afghanistan
4 Nov 2009 | 12:00 amAs Afghanistan's elections draw to a shambolic finale, it is time for President Obama to end his policy review and breathe hope into Afghanistan's bleak landscape. read more -
America Needs Human Rights in China
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Tirana attack prompts comments from editor, businessman
5 Nov 2009 | 11:42 amOur news alert on Wednesday detailing a vicious attack on Albanian editor Mero Baze elicited e-mail comments from both victim and a businessman accused in the attack. Baze said he is recovering but is experiencing head pain. He also echoed reported witness statements that identified Rezart Taci, a principal in local oil companies, as being involved in the attack. Taci, who responded to us through one of his companies, denied involvement in the assault. Citing witness accounts, local press reports said Taci and several of his bodyguards beat Baze, editor of the daily Tema and host of the… -
Arrests welcomed in Moscow double murder
5 Nov 2009 | 10:34 amWe issued this statement following today’s announcement by Russia’s Investigative Committee at the Prosecutor General’s Office that two individuals have been arrested and charged with the January 19 murder in Moscow of human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasiya Baburova. The two suspects are 29-year-old Nikita Tikhonov and 24-year-old Yevgeniya Khasis, identified in the press as members of a neo-fascist group. Reports identify Tikhonov as the shooter and Khasis as the woman who followed Markelov and Baburova, and informed Tikhonov of their whereabouts... "We… -
Toronto’s Citizen Lab uses forensics to fight online censors
2 Nov 2009 | 12:29 pmA basement in the gray, Gothic heart of the University of Toronto is home to the CSI of cyberspace. “We are doing free expression forensics,” says Ronald Deibert, director of the Citizen Lab, based at the Munk Centre for International Studies. Deibert and his team of academics and students investigate in real time governments and companies that restrict what we see and hear on the Internet. They are also trying to help online journalists and bloggers slip the shackles of censorship and surveillance. Deibert is a co-founder of the OpenNet Initiative (ONI), a project of the Citizen Lab in… -
Media rules could bring back the bad old days in Pakistan
30 Oct 2009 | 1:24 pmOn a day when Western media focused on the ramifications of the official visit of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Islamabad, I got a heads-up email message from Mazhar Abbasin Islamabad this morning. He is worried about proposed legislation that passed Thursday through the National Assembly's Standing Committee on Information—which is headed by the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. The committee has recommended that a new law be passed that would set restrictions on media, including a ban on live coverage of events the government doesn't want to see on the air. Mazhar says the… -
Mexican Congressional body to be disbanded
28 Oct 2009 | 9:27 amWe issued the following statement today in response to reports that the new Mexican Chamber of Deputies has not renewed the mandate of a special congressional committee on violence against the press appointed in 2006... “We are deeply disappointed by this failure to renew the mandate of a committee that has helped keep the intolerable situation of the Mexican media in the public eye,” said Carlos Lauría, CPJ senior program coordinator for the Americas. “We call on the Congress to show its full commitment to a free press by granting federal authorities jurisdiction over crimes against…
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CPJ urges PM Brown to investigate Farrell rescue
5 Nov 2009 | 5:05 amDear Prime Minister Brown: The Committee to Protect Journalists wishes to offer our condolences on the loss of British Parachute Regiment Cpl. John Harrison, who died in a September 9 military operation to rescue two journalists kidnapped by Taliban forces in Afghanistan. We are grateful that New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell, a British-Irish national, was safely rescued, but we’re saddened by the loss of his colleague, fellow New York Times reporter Sultan Munadi. -
Chinese authorities detain Uighur Web site managers
30 Oct 2009 | 12:47 pmNew York, October 30, 2009—Chinese police have reportedly arrested two Uighur journalists who published online about Uighur issues in Xinjiang, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Chinese authorities blamed local and international Uighur Web sites for fueling July's ethnic violence, according to international news reports. -
Burmese authorities detain freelance journalist
29 Oct 2009 | 12:33 pmNew York, October 29, 2009—The Committee to Protect Journalists strongly condemns and calls for the immediate release of freelance journalist and blogger Pai Soe Oo, who was detained by government authorities on Wednesday for questioning. -
Death threats sent to paper of slain editor in Sri Lanka
28 Oct 2009 | 12:46 pmNew York, October 28, 2009—The Committee to Protect Journalists is greatly concerned by ongoing threats to Sri Lanka’s journalists and media organizations Anonymous letters with death threats, at left, recently sent to Sunday Leader Editor-in-Chief Frederica Jansz and News Editor Munza Mushtaq echo those that ended in the death of the paper’s founder, Lasantha Wickramatunga, in January. “Our concern is that these most recent threats, like so many others, and the deaths of 11 journalists since President Mahinda Rajapaksa came to power in 2006, will remain unexplained and those… -
Security forces harass Pakistani newspapers
2 Oct 2009 | 9:05 amThe Urdu daily Asaap said Frontier Corps forces were posted outside its offices on August 1, 2009, questioning staff about connections with local insurgents, according to local news reports.The Frontier Corps is a local paramilitary unit stationed to quell a violent independence movement staged by Baloch nationalist groups in the province.
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Video Report: Portraits of the Fallen
26 Oct 2009 | 6:42 amIn “Portraits of the Fallen,” a video introduction to CPJ’s database of killed journalists, María Salazar-Ferro examines the circumstances in which reporters, photographers, editors, and other journalists have died on duty. Because hundreds of journalists have been murdered in reprisal for their work, CPJ is leading a Global Campaign Against Impunity. (4:11) Visit our database of journalists killed since 1992. Get involved in our Campaign Against Impunity. -
As Tunisian elections near, attacks on press mount
22 Oct 2009 | 2:08 pmNew York, October 22, 2009Tunisian authorities must halt harassment of independent journalists, release a journalist jailed for taking photographs, and allow a prominent French reporter to enter the country, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. CPJ has documented a spike in government attacks on independent journalists as Tunisian presidential and legislative elections approach -
Kyrgyzstan must disclose findings in Alisher Saipov murder
22 Oct 2009 | 12:41 pmNew York, October 22, 2009—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Kyrgyz authorities to make public the findings of their investigation into the murder of Alisher Saipov, left, the editor of the Uzbek-language newspaper Siyosat, who was shot in Osh two years ago. Continued impunity in the killing, which occurred in early evening in the city’s downtown district, has fostered fear among his colleagues and undermined trust in the government’s ability to enforce the law. -
Cameraman killed in explosion in Iraq
21 Oct 2009 | 12:12 pmNew York, October 21, 2009—The Committee to Protect Journalists mourns the death ofan Al-Rasheed television cameraman killed by an explosion in front of his home in Kirkuk today. -
Newsweek reporter leaves Tehran; 25 journalists still in jail
20 Oct 2009 | 12:22 pmNew York, October 20, 2009—With the release of Newsweek reporter Maziar Bahari on bail, the Committee to Protect Journalists today called on Iranian authorities to release the 25 journalists who still remain in prison.
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Only the Best
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Glamour Names Euna Lee, Laura Ling 2009 ‘Women of the Year’
3 Nov 2009 | 7:12 pmEuna Lee and Laura Ling, two American journalists jailed in North Korea for 140 days earlier this year, have been named 2009 Women of the Year by Glamour magazine. Lee, 37, and Ling, 32, were on assignment for Current TV’s Vanguard Journalism unit based in Hollywood when they were captured by guards along the border [...] -
‘My dog ate my laptop’
3 Nov 2009 | 3:28 pmboingboing’s Lisa Katayama is always a wonderful fount of mind blowing shit. Recently, she posted on designer Park Je Sung’s concept cardboard laptop. Throwaway computing may be just around the corner. LK also turned me on to Yanko Design, an Asian American-staffed Web site that ranks 52 out of the 75,000,000+ blogs currently floating around [...] -
Pimpin’ Phuket: We
2 Nov 2009 | 3:14 pmJackson Choy and Lori Fujikawa met and fell in love while attending Cal State Long Beach. Later they traveled to Thailand and fell in love all over again… with the country and its culture. Find out what they’re doing to promote Thai tourism by clicking this link to Gil Asakawa’s Nikkei View. One thing is [...] -
Niggaz4Lyfe: UCLA’s Norm Chow and Randall Carroll
27 Oct 2009 | 11:24 pmMy first reaction to the story broken Saturday by Chris Foster, L.A. Times‘ UCLA beat reporter, about freshman wide receiver Randall Carroll using a racial epithet in reference to offensive coordinator Norm Chow was “Gee, I hope he got his slurs right.” You know, I thought that maybe Carroll, the highly recruited L.A. Cathedral High [...]

