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...vitality and much of its novelty. Bodybuilders are de rigeur on ESPN2, and Arnold’s very success in popularizing the sport has ironically decreased its uniqueness. The current roster of action stars no longer includes six-foot Aryan walls of muscle (though funny accents still abound). As James Bond, Pierce Brosnan has managed to elude age with a suaveness and wit to be found nowhere else. Jet Li can offer his lightning-quick martial arts skills to woo audiences. As for Arnold contemporaries Mel Gibson and Bruce Willis, their biggest successes of late have not been in traditional...
...Nazi art looting and are working to restore many treasures to their rightful owners. But the story of Japan's plunder of Asia and in particular of Korea, where the worst abuses occurred, remains relatively unexplored. While conspiracy theories of hidden troves of gold looted by the Japanese abound, there has been little serious research into the issue of stolen art and artifacts. "It's a wide open area," says John Dower, a professor of history at M.I.T. and author of Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II. "This one got truly buried...
Like the Romans before it, the empire of the Golden Arches has finally succumbed to the indomitable spirit of Asterix the Gaul. As of Wednesday, Ronald McDonald has been retired as the icon of McDonald's France, replaced by the Gallic nationalist comic-book hero. Ironies abound, of course, since Asterix had been something of an anti-Mcdonald's icon, appropriated by anti-globalization protestors such as Mac-basher Jose Bove to symbolize French resistance to foreign encroachment. Resentment of the perceived "McDonaldization" of their culture runs high in France - the influential daily Le Monde, for example, warns that Mcdonald...
Although tempting to dream of a better Middle East with Arafat and Sharon out of the picture, the sad reality is that it could also get worse—a lot worse. Although capable leaders abound on both sides, it is unlikely that these leaders will come to power anytime soon. Israel’s hopes lie in the Labor Party, which is currently in disarray and unlikely to win the next election. A more likely successor to Sharon is former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is making a political comeback with the support of Israel’s fanatical...
...Christmas tree in my home affects me. As part of a very small religious minority in the United States (Jews make up 2 percent of the population), living through December is difficult enough. Television, movies, radio and shopping malls are decorated red and green. Even at school, posters abound advertising Christmas a capella jams and holiday dances. But I have always been able to walk past the Christmas tree in Nordstrom’s and go home. Now when I go home, though, a dominating Christian holiday icon stares at me while I eat. Harvard might as well have...