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Lin said he was also called racial slurs while playing college basketball at Harvard University. On Tuesday, Lin told CNN s Don Lemon, When I was in college. and I was playing an Ivy League game and I was called chink multiple times. I ve never revealed who that player or players were, Lin added, To me, it s not about trying to you know, take somebody down or anything like that. It s about building awareness and it s about promoting solidarity. In a February 25 Facebook post, Lin wrote about the racism he believes the Asian American community continues to deal with and offered examples that he said he has experienced. ....
Linsanity. houston rockets. nice try there. then second on the bringing dishing to chandler parsons big night. two of career high 31. the rockets not done there in the fourth. james hardin drills a three. game high 33 since coming aboard. he has been a big edition addition to the rockets. leaving oklahoma city. 131, 103 the final with 13 points. the knicks oldest team in the nba the rockets, the youngest, go figure. old people can t compete with the young kids. the league has now cancelled all regular season games through december 14 as well as all-star weekend in columbus. boy that hurts their economy. commissioner gary bettman said wednesday the lockout is costing the league between 18 and $20 million per day. the players union and league remain far apart on a potential deal. that is not helping on this small business saturday. ....
killing three soldiers in the country s southern helmand province. cnn s chris lawrence is live from the pentagon. what are your sources telling you about this attack this morning? well, john, they say they are still trying to figure out whether this was actually a true afghan police officer or someone just wearing the uniform. although the taliban is claiming that this was an actual afghan policeman who lured these three soldiers to his residence or to a party and had planned to kill them for some time. u.s. military officials are now confirming that part of the detail. but again, it speaks to a larger issue, which is trust in the fact that if this is a so-called green on blue attack, where afghan troops turn on their american allies, it would be the third time just this week. in fact, in the big picture, there have been more attacks already this year of that kind than all of last year, john. all right, chris lawrence at the pentagon. the story developing at this ....
we begin this hour with a very important change in the presidential race. according to our brand new cnn/orc poll, a majority of the nation s voters now say they want to re-elect president obama. take a look at this. the president has 52%. he s seven points ahead of mitt romney who s at 45%. just a month ago the president in our poll was ahead 49% to 46%. significantly the president now according to our latest poll is above 50%. our polls also show what voters think of mitt romney s potential vice presidential picks. let s bring in our national political correspondent jim acosta. he s taking a closer look at all of these numbers. that s right. at least on the surface, should bring a smile to the obama campaign. and perhaps a warning to mitt romney and his campaign to go big in the vice presidential search with mitt romney heading out on a potential rollout of his running mate. the results on the veepstakes are even more fascinating. the two men that seem to be the ....