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Do you have your sights set on a goal that seems out of reach? It’s closer than you think, so don’t give up during the final stretch.

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By Mark Lee
Northwest Asian Weekly

NWAW columnist Mark Lee

Editor’s note: This is the launch of a new monthly Northwest Asian Weekly opinion column by Mark Lee. Each month, Lee will raise topical questions and discuss issues that may be relevant to our readers. Note that, in writing for the NWAW, Lee is not representing the viewpoints of any organization. His columns comprise his own personal opinions.
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Earlier this year, Metro Transit proposed cutting back bus service in Southeast Seattle, perhaps eliminating the bus route 42, the only route that goes from downtown through the ID, and to Rainier Beach.

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Film reviews of the good, the great, and the ones you absolutely can’t miss

“Daytime Drinking,” South Korea
Reviewed by James Tabafunda

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By Assunta Ng
Northwest Asian Weekly

The interior of the Library of Congress is full of architectural marvels.

Can ordinary folks see the White House?

Yes, and it doesn’t even cost you a penny.

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You are cordially invited to

A Community Celebration for U.S. Secretary of Commerce

Saturday, June 20, 2009
5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
House of Hong Restaurant
409 Eighth Ave. S., Seattle

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SINGAPORE (AP) — The gay community in tightly controlled Singapore held its first-ever rally on Saturday, May 16, taking advantage of looser laws on public gatherings to call for equality.

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By Christopher Bodeen
The Associated Press

BEIJING (AP) — This investment turned out to be as risky as it was risque.

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By Jim Gomez
The Associated Press

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippines needs tougher laws to deal with the more than 1 million illegal firearms in the country, some of which may have been smuggled in from Afghanistan for use by Muslim guerrillas, officials said Monday, May 18.

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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — An ethnic Malaysian Indian group has lost a legal bid to remove a word considered offensive from a government-published dictionary, a lawyer said on Friday, May 15.

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By Ravi Nessman
The Associated Press

Tamil Tigers leader Velupillai Prabhakaran

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Following three bloody decades of civil war, Sri Lanka faces the daunting task of trying to reconcile and rebuild after its troops routed the last Tamil Tiger separatist rebels on Monday, May 18, and killed their feared leader.

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