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...Japanese on the Golan have earned a reputation among their peers as disciplined soldiers and meticulous planners, prevented from responding quickly to unexpected situations because their every move has to be checked with Tokyo-based officials. "As Canadians we just wing a lot of things," says Lieut. Colonel Bruce Harding, who commands the joint Canadian-Japanese logistics battalion. "The Japanese are much more precise and orderly. You don't want to surprise them with anything...
...film China read: "Alan Ladd and twenty girls - trapped by the rapacious Japs!" In the POW drama The Purple Heart, American airmen are tortured and executed for not ratting their pals. War movies reveled in a grim picture of the superhuman, subhuman foe - propaganda at its most lurid. As Bruce Jackson, who had been a World War II marine, wrote ironically in 1995: "Japs, as we learned from the newsreels that accompanied the double features, were fanatics who jumped up and down waving swords while screaming 'Banzai!' Japs gleefully died for Emperor Hirohito in suicidal charges against American troops...
...issue," "American Splendor: A Portrait of the Artist in His Declining Years," is a crock. It neither focuses on the history of the series nor appears different in any way from previous issues. Still, even as an un-special issue, "American Splendor" deserves attention. Pekar is like the Lenny Bruce of comix. Often funny, sometimes poignant, but always truthful in a medium that mostly specializes in fiction...
...This year, the council contracted with Bruce Smick Amusements, spending more than $4,000 for a "moonbounce," a water tag arena, a 26-foot climbing wall, a "gladiator joust," and a "bounce...
...financial quid pro quo or any other illegality in Clinton's grant of clemency to Rich. Beth Dozoretz, a Democratic Party fundraiser who is close to both Clinton and Rich's ex-wife Denise, has had a second session in the grand jury, and former deputy White House counsel Bruce Lindsey, as well as Meredith Cabe, another former White House lawyer, have also appeared, according to people involved in the case. Dozoretz testified without immunity, although she had taken the Fifth in House hearings on the pardons - something she did, said an associate, in order to avoid creating a televised...