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...Since the early 1990s, when Japan's economy took a fall from which it has yet to recover, the country has been gripped by a paralyzing identity crisis. This is a recurrent affliction; at moments of abrupt discontinuity with the past, such as the opening of Japan to the West in the mid-19th century and the disastrous end of the Pacific War, troubling questions reframe themselves: What is the source and nature of our uniqueness, and what must we do to thrive in the world without losing a sense of our authentic selves? The continuing absence of satisfactory answers...
...HAVE A PROBLEM WITH CHANGING THE SENATE RULES TO MAKE IT EASIER TO OVERRIDE A FILIBUSTER BY DEMOCRATS OF BUSH'S COURT NOMINEES? Yeah. I think it would be an abrupt change that would cause problems with the Senate and the committee...
Free-market crusader Stephen Moore learned over the years that the quickest way to bring an abrupt end to a conversation was to mention two words: Social Security. He remembers a White House meeting in the mid-1980s at which he raised the idea of overhauling the program as a way to cut the deficit--and a top Reagan Administration official pretended to have suddenly gone deaf. Years later, Moore brought it up as Newt Gingrich and his wrecking crew were drafting the Contract with America, which would be their manifesto for taking over the House. Again, no sale...
...they quickly fell in love, and that his feelings for Soga saved his life. "When I met her," Jenkins says, "my life changed a lot. Me and her together--I knew we could make it in North Korea. And we did. Twenty-two years." Just 38 days after their abrupt introduction, the pair asked to get married, and the government assented. Jenkins and Soga have two daughters: Mika, 21, and Brinda, 19. Only many years after the girls were born did Jenkins start to suspect they were meant to be spy fodder, a theory that can't be independently confirmed...
...they quickly fell in love, and that his feelings for Soga saved his life. "When I met her," Jenkins says, "my life changed a lot. Me and her together?I knew we could make it in North Korea. And we did. Twenty-two years." Just 38 days after their abrupt introduction, the pair asked to get married, and the government assented. Jenkins and Soga have two daughters: Mika, 21, and Brinda, 19. Only many years after the girls were born did Jenkins start to suspect they were meant to be spy fodder, a theory that can't be independently confirmed...