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...students and aspiring local air guitarists will get the chance to share this love at a week of screenings of “Air Guitar Nation” hosted by the Brattle Theatre.THRASHING ON CAMPUSCrane, the sport’s perennial contender and a self-proclaimed “ambassador of air,” is as unworried about his title as he is by skeptics.“Every reviewer starts out by saying, ‘I was kind of dreading seeing this movie,’ and they are completely blown away by how sympathetic they...
...melted considerably, but the water remains cold.' WANG YI, China's ambassador to Japan, on relations between the two countries following talks between Premier Wen Jiabao and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo April 11 and 12. Wen's trip marked the first diplomatic visit to Japan by a Chinese leader in nearly seven years
...over 60 years. The country is defended not so much by the SDF as it is by American jets, ships and nukes. Tokyo bears some of the financial burden, and Washington has begun to make noises about Japan picking up more of the tab-U.S. Ambassador Thomas Schieffer told a group of reporters last month "we would hope they would be able to spend more." But this is unlikely. Even as staunch a conservative as Hisahiko Okazaki, a former diplomat and an Abe foreign-policy adviser, says that Japan should focus on cementing the U.S. alliance, not on pursuing...
...collective responsibility," says Mike Breen, the author of The Koreans. When a Korean does something wonderful, the country rejoices, but when one of its own goes off the rails, like Cho Seung-Hui, there's a collective sense of shame and burden. So much so that South Korea's Ambassador to the U.S., Lee Tae Shik, pledged to fast for 32 days to show his sorrow today. "I can smell a collective sense of guilt," says Lim Jie-Hyun, a history professor at Hangyang University in Seoul. "There is confusion [in Korea] between individual responsibility and national responsibility...
...Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Bill Richardson, who had just returned from Pyongyang late last week after securing the return of remains of U.S. soldiers killed in the Korean war, said on ABC's Sunday talk show, This Week that "the nuclear card is their biggest asset so they're going to play it to the hilt." But Richardson also said he believed that the North Koreans have "made the strategic decision" to abandon their weapons program...