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...Nonaka went to work for the sales department of the Osaka railway. The man who may become Japan's next Prime Minister impressed his bosses so much that they made him a supervisor. Then one night Nonaka overheard a worker say something so upsetting that he quit his job. Bitter and determined, he returned to his hometown of Sonobe, where he ran for a seat on the town council, beginning a remarkable political career that has taken him to the inner circle of Japan's political Elite. What had the worker said? "Nonaka-san is flying high in Osaka...
...doubt improving those chances for victory on the Senate floor was the steep and treacherous climb McCain-Feingold still faces on the Hill. What has McCain won? A long and bitter rematch in the House, where Dennis Hastert and Dick Gephardt are both starting to stammer and Tom DeLay is loaded for bear. Shays-Meehan, McCain-Feingold's House doppleganger, always cruised when it had nowhere to go - now the knives will be drawn. And if the twin bills don't match up exactly when they're through - down to the last amendment? McCain gets a reconciliation fight, with...
...days when the P.L.O. ran an unruly state-within-a-state have left many Lebanese with bitter memories. Over the last year, debates in parliament and editorials in Beirut dailies have echoed the rising sentiment that Lebanon will find it difficult to bury its past and build a democratic future as long as Palestinian refugees remain in the country. "We refuse any implantation," Information Minister Ghazi Aridi declared in December. "This is a basic Lebanese national issue on which we cannot make any compromise...
...Manet had much to be bitter about. Shortly before he died, a friend tried to console him with the thought that he would get his due in the end. "Oh, I know all about justice being done one day," Manet burst out. "It means one begins to live only after one is dead." He died of tertiary syphilis, which he may have inherited from his eminently respectable father, who wanted him to do something more respectable than painting. His death, hastened by gangrene of the leg, was horrific and preceded by a long, slow descent into agony...
...Joseph Fiennes-and contains one of the best sex scenes in modern cinema. For the most part, Annaud succeeds in his goal; his re-creation of one of the worst battles of World War II is beautiful and keeps its audience on the edge of their seats until the bitter end. Although the Russians won the 1942-43 battle of Stalingrad, they lost 1.1 million men (in contrast to the Axis' 800,000) defending a strategically trivial city. From the beginning, we see that the Russian army is one that values materials over men. They supply the conscripted soldiers...