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...Forming a team is one thing. Winning is another. The question is whether Abe?having "plucked the low-hanging fruit," as Kingston puts it, by taking a tough stance on North Korea?can transfer his momentum to domestic issues such as pension reform and economic inequality, bread-and-butter concerns that will likely push foreign policy off the front pages long before next July's critical upper-house elections. Many analysts are doubtful, not least because Abe has yet to set out his domestic agenda. His maiden Diet speech contained a lot of rhetoric about the need to make Japan...
...Sold is told in poetic vignettes in the voice of Lakshmi, a 13-year-old girl who lives in rural Nepal. Life is grueling there for women young and old. "A girl is like a goat," a local saying goes. "Good as long as she gives you milk and butter. But not worth crying over when it's time to make a stew." Her stepfather sells her for 800 rupees to a woman who spirits her off to a brothel in Calcutta. If the book sounds grim, it is. It's also the stuff awards committees love; Sold was just...
...spent a week of spring training in Florida, where I saw my favorite team: the Atlanta Braves. At spring training, everyone’s in shades, and everyone’s all smiles. And then there are the smells. You won’t catch a whiff of cocoa butter or grapeseed oil here: the most pervasive scent at the ballpark, among a whole menu of them—grilling dogs, gasoline, freshly cut grass—is the one that wafts from industrial-size helpings of Coppertone sunblock, not the fancy stuff. What is this, the beach? No, it?...
...Oktoberfest were a number of unkempt bearded oracles. We had seen several of these shamans outside of 7-11 before, jingling their mystic wisdom goblets, but had never mustered the courage to speak with them. And oh, what we were missing. Those priests of illusion have much wisdom butter to spread. One of them is writing a historical novel about a love triangle in the Courts of Vienna...entirely in his head! And another has risen from poverty to be one Boston’s premier adult party planners, throwing themed sleeping-bag galas under the Coop seven decadent nights...
...rules of proper behavior. The new book Debrett's Etiquette for Girls dictates how to dress on a first date ("All men will weaken at a bit of slinkiness"), how best to gossip (Rule No. 1: "Watch your back"), and what to do when encountering celebrities ("Exploit their insecurities, butter them up, but keep it brief"). It also gives advice on--gasp!--how to cheat on your husband or boyfriend ("Cover your tracks"). Um, isn't this tacky or even a bit--dare we say it--déclassé? "We decided it was time for a bit of a change," says...