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...Foreign Minister and the grandson of a Prime Minister - opened the Japanese legislature, the Diet, with an ambitious call to remake the country's postwar system, to create what he termed "a beautiful Japan." His vision was of an influential and energetic Japan, one that would not be bound by the pacifism that he believed had been forced on the Japanese in the wake of World War II, a nation whose presence on the geopolitical stage would finally match its economic muscle...
...awoke one morning to the sound of dozens of helicopters swarming past my apartment toward Hollywood Hills. I feared the worst. It’s a terrorist attack and Jack Bauer is nowhere to be found. But no—turning on CNN, I realized this convoy was bound for Paris Hilton’s courtroom, because she was due back before the judge. (In case you missed it, her privileged butt was sent back to jail.) The news you might have overlooked that day was that Gen. Peter Pace, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was fired...
After an internship with Creative Artists Agency, I’m confident that the entertainment industry is where I’m bound. But I occasionally still have a small feeling in my gut that this Paris-obsessed world is superficial. Yet the political world didn’t seem much better after a summer with the Justice Department last year. Call me crazy, but discussing the intricacies of which Senator is screwed (or screwing) doesn’t bring the same excitement as when my father and I can debate the merits of shows like...
...taking a 19-16 advantage. The Crimson worked a 4-0 surge of its own but fell short of regaining the lead, as the Spartans took the match and the Invitational title.HARVARD 3, WOFFORD 1When four players record kill statistics in the double digits, good things are bound to follow.That was the case in the first matchup of Saturday’s play in the Invitational, which pitted Wofford against the hometown Crimson. After splitting the first two games against the Terriers, Harvard rallied to secure a 3-1 victory...
...Kevin Murphy, best known as a writer-performer on the late, great Mystery Science Theater 3000, spent the year 2001 on a world tour seeing a different film every day (and wrote up this punishing experience in a wonderfully funny, thoughtful book, A Year at the Movies). Murphy is bound to have equaled or eclipsed my itinerary. And I couldn't touch him for stamina...