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...Perpetuating the family business doesn't get at the real challenges facing Japan. But rather than combat the country's complex problems - stagnating wages, a widening income gap, a shifting global balance of power - many politicians seem intent on replaying ancient political battles. And it's not just a Bush here or a Kennedy there: roughly one-third of Japan's sitting parliamentarians come from political nobility. Hereditary leadership doesn't just plague the LDP, which has ruled Japan virtually uninterrupted for half a century, but opposition parties as well. Ichiro Ozawa, the head of the Democratic Party of Japan...
...history is distinctively nonlinear, and that his use of a word like sacred in his book's title is likely to carry metaphysical rather than religious meaning. Even so, the early chapters of Thames meander in some murky backwaters in search of the spiritual. He summons water nymphs and ancient river gods like Egypt's Isis or the Hindu god Shiva, speculates on Neolithic burial rites and toys with the idea that "human consciousness is changed by the experience of living above clay, rather than above chalk." The book never quite recovers from these tributary explorations, but like the Thames...
...witnessing the to-and-fro of an ancient institution at battle with itself and its students, as Harvard tries the hardest it ever has to get its undergraduates out of famed Harvard Yard for a mere one semester out of eight. The Ivy gates are indeed more permeable than ever, thanks to great initiative by the Office of International Programs...
Until the league’s presidents lift their ban on playoff participation, though, it will unfortunately be near impossible to judge how the Ancient Eight’s best stack up against I-AA’s best, which so impressively went toe-to-toe with the Big Ten’s best...
Other popular destinations for spring included Rome, with Vera Wang excavating ideas from the city's ancient polycultural society and translating them into toga-like dresses, and Bali, where Diane von Furstenberg found bold floral prints. Japan--specifically its traditional folded-and-dyed fabric-printing technique, shibori--turned up on the runways of designers like Narciso Rodriguez, Proenza Schouler and Thakoon Panichgul...