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Helicopters, it turns out, do not fly upside down. I know this by hard, albeit simulated, experience. I was on the stick of an MH-53 helicopter, a 21-ton flying monster that is one of the largest craft of its type in the world, at the Iwakuni Air Base in western Japan. My co-pilot and instructor-an officer in the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF)-guided me as I lifted the copter off the ground and pointed it toward the Akinada Sea. A little spin over the water, no problem, and then my instructor asked...
...Japan gives the rest of Asia flashbacks to the war, but the truth is that Iwakuni, like all Japanese military facilities, is still far more defensive than offensive. While missile-armed F/A-18 Hornets launch daily from the American side of the base, Japan's hangars are filled with support craft like the MH-53, which sweeps for mines, and the US-1A, a giant propeller-powered flying boat used for sea rescues. The division of labor is obvious at Iwakuni in other ways. The U.S. keeps nearly half of the base to itself. But the two countries are slowly moving...
...workshops. In a department devoted to criticism and analysis, does the creative writing program serve a purpose? DICK AND JANEFor the many students that apply, creative writing workshops offer the tempting combination of access to instructors who are eminent in their fields and the valuable opportunity to develop their craft. The workshops are seminar-sized courses in which students read and critique one another’s work under the guidance of the instructor. Of course, these aren’t the only classes with limited enrollment. Harvard students often lottery for a coveted spot in one class or another...
...Thankfully, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” was sufficiently captivating as a ballet that, despite minimal character interpretation, the dancers excelled as masters of their craft. Most impressive were Oberon and Titania, King and Queen of the Faeries...
...wouldn’t be caught dead in a bra and panties on a day like this,” she said in a mid-afternoon press conference. “I certainly felt for those boys—or ladies, as it were. They certainly suffered for their craft...