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...stagnation. During the boom years of the 1970s and '80s, Japan Inc.'s single-minded focus on engineering and process development-not to mention a resistance to foreign ideas-were hallmarks of the country's rapid economic progress and a source of national pride. But when the economic bubble burst in the early 1990s, Japan was gripped by a crisis of confidence, as if its success in the past loomed over its present travails like Mount Fuji. This crisis is centered in the commercial realm, but it is not confined there. Though the streets of Tokyo and other large cities...
...final score of the afternoon, when sophomore Jennifer Sifers poked the puck away at the defensive blue line and outraced the stunned Big Green defense the length of ice before beating an off-balance Dartmouth goalkeeper Christine Capuano with a wrist shot. Sifers’s short-handed burst underscored the counter-attacking nature of the Crimson penalty kill, a strategy that led to Yale’s game-tying goal the day before but came up spades in the finale...
...Have you guys heard about the time, right after Byron’s exile, that his Swiss hotelier burst in on him, like, in flagrante delicto with a chambermaid, because the hotelier was convinced that Byron was getting it on with his wife?” They have...
...resurrection. The London Supper is a work of high theater, produced by a man in full use of the blazing devices at his command. The beardless, youthful-looking Jesus, dressed in red and white robes, thrusts his right hand forward in a gesture that seems to burst through into our own space. One of the apostles does the same as he spreads his arms out in astonishment, realizing that he sits with the risen Christ. At the edge of the table, a meticulously rendered basket of fruit teeters partway in air. The later version of this same scene is more...
...second-period burst came on the heels of a sluggish opening frame, in which Harvard outshot the Golden Knights 10-2 but came away empty-handed. The slow start is becoming a troubling trend for the Crimson...