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...editing error, an earlier version of the Nov. 28 column entitled "Untied Hands" incorrectly carried the sub-headline "We shouldn’t fear a borderless world." In fact, the piece is not arguing for the elimination of boundaries between countries, but instead for increased awareness of the benefits of immigration...
...music (he didn't attend). But at least you will see, at the concert's close, rows of North Koreans quietly moved by a poignant rendition of Arirang, the Korean folk tune beloved on both sides of the DMZ, and a touching song whose harps and violins are borderless. Perhaps rapprochement can start from there...
...always been true in shadowy, borderless wars, measuring the strength of the enemy isn't an exact science. It's true that many of the "leaderless jihadis" have set up operations independently of al-Qaeda, but when they turn to bin Laden's organization, it's not just for inspiration but also for training, assistance and direction - in short, for leadership. Many are able and willing to do bin Laden's bidding; they pay very careful attention to his Internet postings and follow his instructions. And although their targets have generally been close to home, their association with al-Qaeda...
...That idea of a borderless world makes sense to Kuang Yinghuan, who arrived in Japan in 2002 as part of a high-school exchange program that each year brings 200 top students from China's northeast to Japan. Five years on, Kuang's Japanese is impeccable and he's a first-year graduate student at the University of Tokyo. "When I first came here, people made fun of me because I didn't speak Japanese well," he says with a grimace. "But now, when I tell them I'm a University of Tokyo student, they think of me as that...
...separated. The blessing and the curse of Ross’s writing style is that he loads his answer with as much nuance as the subject itself. He writes, “Music history is too often treated as...a flat image representing a landscape that is in reality borderless and continuous.” Classical European composers outpaced their audiences while Americans began exporting their music for the people; extremist political leaders used threats and violence to chain musicians to their propaganda machines; in-fighting and trend-chasing doomed classical music’s withering popularity?...