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Never mind trade issues: the U.S. and Japan can't even agree on what's funny. That culture gap was illustrated recently when a Japanese businessman on a United Airlines flight from Tokyo to San Francisco handed a flight attendant a trash-filled airsickness bag and claimed it was a bomb. His attempt at humor didn't go over very well with the crew, which placed the bag carefully in a protective box, dumped fuel and headed back to Japan. Last week the prankster paid United a relatively small damage settlement of $29,000. An airline lawyer explained that after...
...storybook vision, a certain 12-year-old girl last week clung fiercely to the ritual. After giving birth in the early hours of the morning in her bedroom, after cradling the 6-lb. 10-oz. boy until dawn, after carrying him into the hallway, stuffing him inside a plastic bag and throwing him down a garbage chute, the little girl did the only thing that made sense in her life. She went to school...
Living upstairs from a junior faculty member (which will happen in one of the buildings) is, at best, a mixed bag. The "enriching experience" of it all runs headlong into noise complaints, schedule conflicts and the more general problem of social asymmetry...
...highway bridge. And a man's possessions, like his home, are protected by the Constitution from unlawful searches. That was the thrust of a Connecticut Supreme Court ruling last week that ordered a new trial for David Mooney, a homeless man charged with murder because his property -- a duffel bag and a box stashed under a ramp leading onto Interstate 91 in New Haven -- had been searched by police without a warrant. "His duffel bag was luggage," observes criminal-law professor Lloyd Weinreb of Harvard. "If someone were walking down the street with a suitcase, everyone would take...
...listen to young Jabar and Hussein, privates in the Iraqi army, was to know the story of their country last week. A bag of spoiled dates -- "food for cattle," Hussein called it -- was their only sustenance as they plodded down a rain-sodden highway littered with ravaged tanks in southern Iraq. They had come from Basra, where a popular uprising against Saddam Hussein's government was under way. At one point in the fighting, Jabar and Hussein shed their uniforms and joined the revolt, but they grew fainthearted when loyalist troops began shelling rebel positions. "We are for the people...