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...Murakami's first novel, Hear the Wind Sing - with its title taken from a Truman Capote short story and featuring Beach Boys lyrics on the back cover - would be published within a year of his revelation. That such a moment came while watching an American athlete play an imported game is entirely in keeping with a man whose work - at least in its early stages - was not shaped by Japanese literature, but by the secondhand foreign paperbacks he read growing up near the port of Kobe, and the jazz and rock he absorbed as a student in Tokyo. Long before...
...hoped that with constant pressure, President George W. Bush would do what most Americans have come to believe is right: bring the U.S. troops home. But my hopes dimmed after reading the cover story. Although congressional Democrats and the majority of Americans may demand a withdrawal, it is not going to happen before Bush leaves office in January 2009. His Administration is operating on the premise that it is worth every cost to avoid anything that could cause a war among Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, all top oil producers. Olutayo Oluyemi, New York City...
...should model our troop withdrawal on the British pullout from Dunkirk in 1940. Commandeer everything that flies and floats. Do it under cover of smoke and tear gas or fighter escort if necessary. Burn the equipment, but get the soldiers out now. Dunkirk was a defeat for the Brits, but the spirit that emerged from the rescue operation galvanized them for ultimate victory. We might claim some of that spirit by rescuing our soldiers right away. Doug Dix, Bloomfield, Conn...
That's good news, considering that the U.S. has purchased only 26 million doses of the newly licensed H5N1 flu vaccines, enough to cover 13 million people in the event of a pandemic -but there's no guarantee that H5N1 will even be the bug in question. In 1918 the Spanish flu infected 20% of the world's population and killed 40 million people (a mortality rate of 2.5%), and 550,000 of those deaths were in the U.S. What the new study illuminates is the small print behind that big number: some cities got hit much harder than others...
...SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and MONEY will be publishing a series of reports on New Orleans. Articles from these and other Time Inc. publications marking the second anniversary of Katrina will be hosted on TIME.com You will find an updated index of those pieces at time.com/katrina This is our fifth cover story on New Orleans since Katrina, and probably not the last. But if there is one reason to believe that this great American city can rise again, it is the resilience of its people. Over dinner in the French Quarter one night, we heard from several of those working...