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		<title>Former Hawaii Quarterback Arrested After Altercation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HONOLULU — Former Hawaii quarterback Timmy Chang, one of the most prolific passers in college football history, has been arrested on suspicion of robbery and released without charges pending further investigation.
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		<title>Judith Hill: Jackson Memorial Mystery Singer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[She commanded center stage during some the most memorable moments at this morning's Michael Jackson Memorial, but her identity had most in attendance at Staples Center and millions of international television viewers baffled. Who was the young Asian woman singing lead on the moving "Heal the World"?<br /><a href='http://epicanthus.net/2009/07/07/judith-hill-jackson-memorial-mystery-singer/'><img width='160' height='120' src='http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/UmJlwaCn/healtheworldjacksonmemorialjudithhill070709.thumbnail.jpg' /> </a><br /><a href='http://epicanthus.net/2009/07/07/judith-hill-jackson-memorial-mystery-singer/'><img width='160' height='120' src='http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/XA1UV2j8/nbc_jackson_watw_090707_judithhill.thumbnail.jpg' /> </a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=epicanthus.net&blog=1048455&post=3731&subd=epicanthus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Turning Japanese: Billy &#8216;Tae Bo&#8217; Blanks</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:07:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Back Channels: The Jong-il, Jacko Proposal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:27:40 +0000</pubDate>
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Gotham Chopra, 34, is a media entrepreneur and journalist. A colleague of Laura Ling at Current TV, he is the son of New Age spiritualist author Dr. Deepak Chopra.
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		<title>Summer Bento</title>
		<link>http://epicanthus.net/2009/06/29/summer-bento/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Al Gore Talks About Jailed Journalists, Current TV</title>
		<link>http://epicanthus.net/2009/06/28/gore-speaks-out-on-current-tv-jailed-journalists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
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In an imagined worldwide exclusive, journalist/satirist Harry Shearer got former Vice President Al Gore to make his first public comments about what he&#8217;s doing to free two of his Current TV reporters from their imprisonment in North Korea. Shearer colleague Milton Gestler gently probed Gore on CPR&#8217;s Up to Here segment of Shearer&#8217;s syndicated Le [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=epicanthus.net&blog=1048455&post=3668&subd=epicanthus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Journalists&#8217; Health Said to Be Deteriorating in NKorea</title>
		<link>http://epicanthus.net/2009/06/26/journalists-health-deteriorating-in-nkorea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 07:19:44 +0000</pubDate>
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The husbands of Current TV journalists held by North Korea since March said they received phone calls from their wives last week and that the two women are now suffering from undiagnosed health problems and are being held in a medical facility. A North Korean court sentenced the pair to 12 years &#8220;reform through labor&#8221; [...]<br /><a href='http://epicanthus.net/2009/06/26/journalists-health-deteriorating-in-nkorea/'><img width='160' height='120' src='http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/g8jp3gY4/somalianpiratesvideo_saldateclaytonsfrallyo624o9.thumbnail.jpg' /> </a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=epicanthus.net&blog=1048455&post=3647&subd=epicanthus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fools&#8217; Dance: OBON in America 2009</title>
		<link>http://epicanthus.net/2009/06/17/fools-dance-obon-in-america-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:49:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japanese Americans all across the land from New York to San Diego will celebrate the ancient Buddhist Obon festival in the coming weeks with joyous folk dancing, religious observances and traditional Japanese foods in what is the most authentic cultural event remaining in Japanese America.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=epicanthus.net&blog=1048455&post=3587&subd=epicanthus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who Is Mitchell Koss and Why Isn&#8217;t He Talking?</title>
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		<title>Truth Embargoed in Coverage of Euna Lee / Laura Ling Story?</title>
		<link>http://epicanthus.net/2009/06/08/larry-king-live/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(North Korean news agency KCNA announced Sunday evening —1:30 p.m. June 8 in Pyongyang— that American journalists Euna Lee, 36, and Laura Ling, 32, both of Los Angeles, have been convicted and sentenced to 12 years hard labor for the &#8220;grave crime&#8221; they committed against North Korea.)
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		<title>NKorea Sentences US Journalists to 12 Years&#8217; Hard Labor</title>
		<link>http://epicanthus.net/2009/06/07/nkorea-sentences-us-journalists-to-12-years-hard-labor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 04:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
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SEOUL (Reuters) &#8211; North Korea said on Monday it had found two U.S. journalists guilty of entering the state illegally and sentenced both to 12 years of hard labor.
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