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...opens in the early summer of 1992, with Noriko hanging laundry in the backyard of the Shito family mansion in Koganei, an airy suburban Tokyo neighborhood of delightful tree-lined streets. She is serenely happy and in love with her new husband, Kazuhito, and his tanned arms and adorable round ears. Her new extended family, moreover, loves her. They welcome and dazzle her with praise, and appear in many ways to be typical of large, conservative, close-knit, multigenerational families. They eat dinner and watch TV together. The men are breadwinners (Kazuhito and his father Takeo manage a rice mill...
...dusk in Long Beach, California. He slept on the redeye back to West Virginia, where his schedule called for about three hours in a hotel Tuesday morning before he had to speak again to another cheering crowd. His chief rival and confirmed nemesis, John McCain, toured Romney's backyard in Boston, before heading on to New York, New Jersey, then to California and, finally, Arizona. Mike Huckabee, meanwhile, had retreated to an evangelical southern strategy in states like Arkansas, Alabama and Tennessee...
...been involved in military engagements beyond its backyard before, but such an ambitious mission so far from Europe is being touted as a turning point in E.U. foreign policy. It is considerably larger that 2003's Operation Artemis, a 1,400-strong E.U. rapid reaction force in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and smaller, mainly humanitarian missions to Georgia, the Aceh region of Indonesia and Ukraine...
...Collins, Venter's once and perhaps future rival, whose group at the NIH is also working on creating synthetic genes, echoes that doubt. "Suppose I have a pile of dirt in my backyard and I want to move it," he says. "I could spend months building the components, but I already have a lawn tractor, so what I need to do is add a front loader. Why not take the shortest path...
...spoils on February 5, even if we assume everyone contends for the trove of G.O.P. delegates at play in California, which is not a winner-take-all state. Let's imagine for a minute that Rudy Giuliani concentrates his efforts on four winner-take-all-states in his backyard: New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Delaware. If he won those states and (for discussion's sake) one quarter of California's congressional districts, he would take home about 343 delegates...