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...showing through the cracks. In our darkened, humid rooms, we huddled in dismay at the way our ancestral Japan had put a curse on all Japanese living in Hawaii. Other ethnic groups looked upon us as the enemy, not to be trusted. Our village elders soon got together to burn or destroy anything to do with Japan: photos of the Emperor, flags, swords and even shortwave radios that could be turned into transmitters. Still, the police on the sugar plantation where we lived led the FBI into Japanese homes. Many people were rounded up: language teachers and martial-arts instructors...
While many students spent spring break basking in the sun on exotic beaches, Ruben Marinelarena ’02-’03 was feeling the burn of military-strength pepper spray and learning to be “combat efficient in a nuclear and chemical environment...
...finishing touches. Both Plasma and Acid Music will let you layer on drum loops, synthesizer sounds and even your voice. When you're done, the full-price versions will let you burn your masterpiece onto...
Spencer has been along this road before, of course. Endless Love, his megaselling 1979 novel, was about a teenager led by crazy passion to burn down his girlfriend's house and later bring on the death of her father. (Don't blame him for the Brooke Shields movie.) For A Ship Made of Paper, his eighth novel, Spencer worked with different characters but similar desperations. Daniel is a New York City lawyer who flees back to Leyden, his childhood home on the Hudson River north of the city. It's a place on the literary map somewhere between Cheeverville...
...Hambali, had their assets frozen in January?16 months after the Treasury Department sought to have them designated as terrorists. Many intelligence analysts say such moves would be symbolic but important steps toward cutting off JI's financial lifeblood. The repeated delays suggest that JI will have money to burn for some time...