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...whatever their political leanings, many burakumin would be delighted to see one of their own rise to the top job in the land: it would certainly do more to blunt discrimination than any legislation. And that worker who insulted Nonaka all those years ago may now want to reverse his assessment of the former supervisor. In Sonobe he may be a burakumin; in Tokyo, Hiromu Nonaka is flying high...
...arrayed against accommodationists, who value, among other peace dividends, the $116 billion in annual trade. It was in the interest of both to let the other side know there were divisions within their ranks. That's the nature of the game, played this round by George W. Bush, a blunt-spoken Westerner whose father was once a special envoy to China, and President Jiang Zemin, an aging autocrat who staked his authority on building a better relationship with the West, only to come under fire at home for going too far. In a test of pride and power, two Presidents...
This mad medicine is the same drug that's called shabu in Japan and Indonesia, batu in the Philippines and bingdu in China. While it has taken scientists years to figure out the clinical pharmacology and neurological impact of ecstasy and other designer drugs, methamphetamines are blunt pharmaceutical instruments. The drug encourages the brain to flood the synapses with the neurotransmitter dopamine--the substance your body uses to reward itself when you, say, complete a difficult assignment at the office or finish a vigorous workout. And when the brain is awash in dopamine, the whole cardiovascular system goes into sympathetic...
...since 1984. By the end of this month, total government public debt will top $5.5 trillion, a head-spinning 130% of GDP. (America's $3.4 trillion in federal public debt is 35% of GDP.) "Japan's public finances are very near collapsing," Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa said in uncharacteristically blunt remarks on March 8. He wouldn't say he was trying to drive down the price of the yen, but that's exactly what happened. The next day he backtracked...
...Dark Angel, occasionally lets a mere man help her save the world, after which she suavely extracts herself from his adoration. "What's the plan?" asks her enraptured swain of the moment, who doesn't deserve to be in her car pool, let alone her gene pool. Max's blunt reply: "I'm the plan...