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...front of TVs in countless noodle shops whenever the ponies are at the post. The club's takings ($1.4 billion last year) make it Hong Kong's largest taxpayer as well as the SAR's most dependable charitable donor. Gambling money has built playgrounds, cultural centers and other civic improvements around the city...
...This prospect changes everything. Many long-term western expatriates in Japan inhabit an Edenic state of bourgeois affluence with no strings attached. We enjoy a comfortable lifestyle, yet remain untroubled by civic duties. We can't vote, we may lack linguistic fluency, our opinions are presumed to derive from our national stereotypes, we rarely blip on the national radar, so we are absolved from caring overly about where we live. Japan's problems, except in a Japanwatching way, are not our problems. However, as someone who intends to return in five years to put a child through Japan's elementary...
...there is no provision for dual nationality in adulthood, so on his or her twentieth birthday our child must go through the ritual of renouncing British citizenship in the eyes of Japanese law?while retaining both European Union and Japanese citizenship in the eyes of British law. On a civic level, even Hiroshima, my home for eight years and, according to its tourist literature "the international city of peace," denies Korean conscripts killed in the A-bomb blast a monument in Peace Memorial Park because its foreign presence would sully the sanctum's purity. "Internationalization," as oft-quoted a mantra...
...families' relatives had been stacked like firewood in piles of a dozen or more, jammed into sheds and buried haphazardly in the backyard of the crematory owners. For the rest of the week the families took the urns they thought contained their loved ones' ashes to the Walker County Civic Center in hopes of putting them to rest--again. "One woman had her mama in her lap. The next one had her uncle. The next one had her brother," recalls Gary Guy, 50, who had come from Ringgold, Ga., to track down his mother-in-law's body...
...ideal schedule would have me shell out $500 for sourcebooks alone—not including another $300 for real, honest-to-God books. Some of these sourcebooks cost almost $200 apiece, for example the infamous sourcebook for Literature and Arts B-20, “Designing the American City: Civic Aspirations and Urban Form” that costs an astounding $200.50. Is there any logical constraint on what we will be asked to pay for an item with little, if any, residual value once the semester is over...