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...realignment of American forces. There's a reason for the move-Iwakuni is within striking distance of every potential hot spot in Northeast Asia, from Beijing to Pyongyang to Taipei. As he gives a group of foreign journalists a briefing on Iwakuni, Satoru Shoji, an MSDF captain with the blunt build and cauliflower ears of a rugby player, points toward the area west of Japan on a map and says, "This is the area we have to watch out for." There isn't any doubt about which countries he's referring to: North Korea and China...
...Francisco where she discovers the circle of early women comix artists who would establish "Wimmin's Comix," the pioneering feminist underground comic book. While acknowledging the importance of her meeting this group, her characterization of the core contributors ("a backbiting, nasty group of women") typifies the author's blunt and often surprising revelations in this book...
...Chieko usually wears a miniskirt. If I wear a miniskirt, I feel watched. But, the 16-year-old Chieko is not like that. She is open and blunt, is always so edgy. Her anger, passion, the distance with her father, the loss of her mother, she is dealing with all these problems and she is always looking for someone to be hugged by, not necessarily sexually, but also for some warmth, her simmering tension, that's the kind of thing I created during the year. Alejandro told me that he would give me the role only a week before shooting...
...mediator between often-tribal faculty departments, bringing together, for example, scientists and philosophers to tackle the academic riddles of the future. Past presidents, from Lawrence H. Summers to Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, have adopted a confrontational management style, attempting to force through initiatives with a blunt stick. If we, as observers of Harvard University, learned anything from the rapid downfall of former University President Summers, it is that no man—now, no person—can push Harvard in his or her own direction as its leader...
Last week, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) reached a milestone. In blunt and forceful language, a new report prepared by the Task Force on Teaching and Career Development acknowledges what students have been saying for years: Harvard has a pedagogy problem. The 86-page report recommends 18 concrete and sensible strategies for the improvement of teaching at Harvard, but if the report is to make more than a mere dent, its proposals must be brought to fruition. We hope that the Faculty, the new president, and the new dean of the Faculty will fast-track the implementation...