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...Japanese actor, comedian and prime-time-TV icon; in Tokyo. In the 1970s, Japan's overworked masses tuned into Ikariya's five-man comedy ensemble, the Drifters, with nearly religious devotion. Every Saturday night, as much as half the population watched Hachiji Dayo! Zenin Shugo! (It's Eight O'Clock! Everyone Gather 'Round!). In a country that took itself very seriously, Ikariya's show had few sacred cows, routinely poking fun at everyone from bumbling businessmen to preening celebs. Ikariya played the consummate straight man: stolid, good-natured, never too proud to enjoy a good chuckle at his own expense...
...negative image on the course of the occupation one year after it began and step up a calculated campaign to disrupt the transfer of sovereignty to Iraqis on June 30. U.S. officials expect attacks to increase as the date nears. "All of a sudden, it put a countdown clock on this country," says General Mark Kimmitt, the military's chief spokesman in Iraq. Kimmitt and other U.S. officials in Iraq increasingly believe Islamic radicals have taken charge of orchestrating the violence as Saddam Hussein loyalists fade from the scene. Their intent is to push the country into anarchy, where extremism...
...think I’ve ever had a kid here at Harvard or elsewhere who is as dedicated to the game of baseball as Zak is,” he says. “I came in here yesterday morning at about eight o’clock and he’d already finished his workout...
...alarm clock on the nightstand blares...
...Nobody's watching the clock." SCOTT MCCLELLAN, White House spokesman, backing off from an earlier assertion that President Bush would spend only one hour being interviewed by the commission investigating Sept...