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...Japanese, kano is a homonym for a word meaning possible. But for the average citizen, the sisters embody the impossible?and not just because of their Barbie-doll proportions. They have shirked marriage, preferring to live together, and spend half the year abroad in exotic locales like Monaco and Bermuda. They dress in Ungaro if they dress at all. Kyoko never goes out without her 24-carat diamond ring; Mika has her G-cup bras custom-made (they won't confirm or deny plastic surgery). "To Japanese, we are like anim? characters," Kyoko sighs over a five-course dinner...
...Summers’ actions will have important implications for real people in the year ahead: students, faculty and workers. As someone who commands credibility with corporations as Rudenstine never could, it matters all the more that Summers refuse the corporate university model and choose to be a citizen of Harvard instead...
...being set up against our critical judgment. We are being prevented by the military, by the Bush administration, by the network executives and even by the self-censorship of our supposedly relentless journalists from fulfilling our democratic duty—arguably the most important duty of the patriotic citizen in this time of crisis...
...become nosy and suspicious. There is no such thing in Israel as an unattended package. If someone leaves a bag behind, within minutes a citizen alerts the police, who clear the area until the bomb squad can send in a robot to blow it up. This is such a common scene in Israeli cities that it doesn't even draw a crowd. Israelis tend to be acutely aware of who is around them. They search faces and notice odd behavior--for instance, a man wearing a heavy jacket in summertime. That kind of vigilance has paid off on occasion, thwarting...
...Newton doesn't mind. In the 1980s the Berlin-born Australian citizen (he now lives in Monte Carlo) tried his hand at pornography, shooting for the likes of Playboy. And he has proclaimed that he intends to become less politically correct as he gets older. He turned 80 last year and is selling better than ever. Earlier this month "Sex and Landscapes," the first commercial sale of Newton's work in two years, opened at the De Pury et Luxembourg Art gallery in Zurich. Even before the opening, some 40 prints sold for $30,000 each. This fall the Mary...