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Will it really be possible to make a melting pot of the world and still preserve each religion, language and custom, and appreciate them to the extent we would if the world were composed of individually strong cultures? The answer is an emphatic...
...Japanese custom dictates that when alcohol is served, it is permissible to let one's guard down. Early last week Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa did just that over an eel-and-sake dinner in a fancy Tokyo restaurant, confiding to his dining partners that he wanted to quit. His indiscretion was immediately leaked to the press, prompting an official denial that same night. Three days later, however, Hosokawa set his resignation in motion. A popular reformer who came to power last August pledging to sweep out "money politics" was outrun by a scandal of his own making...
...pull everyone together. Adams felt no compunction about attending the funeral of I.R.A. member Thomas Begley, who died last October when the bomb he was planting in a fishmonger's shop in a Protestant neighborhood went off prematurely, killing nine men, women and children besides himself. As is the custom at Irish funerals, Adams "took a lift," shouldering the coffin for a short time on the way to the cemetery. ; That picture stirred outrage in Britain, where it was regarded as proof that Adams was an I.R.A. boss. "It would have been seen as a cynical political maneuver...
...that its latest reports indicate that female circumcision is practiced in more than half of Nigeria; still, it said, while the girls might be cut, "that is not an inevitable consequence." The telegram added that if Oluloro was deported, she did not have to live where mutilation remains the custom...
...Among the other investors: N.H.L. star Mario Lemieux and actor Michael J. Fox.) The Penguins, from their new $200 jerseys -- a hip, hockey-playing bird has replaced the hammer-and-sickle motif -- to the circus performers and striptease acts between periods, are Russia's first glimpse at the American custom of big-time sports mixed with even bigger-time marketing...