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...must war movies. So how does a U.S. company sell a film to the Japanese when its main attraction is a re-enactment of the 1941 surprise attack by their countrymen?an attack that killed more than 2,000 Americans and resulted, ultimately, in Japan's own horrific defeat? Unlike the Germans, who as a nation have never stopped agonizing over their role in the war, the Japanese have spent the past half-century repressing the memories and trying to make the world forget their aggression as well. "Many Japanese are deeply troubled that Disney would choose to make this...
...Hill said Thomas was a frequent consumer of pornography whose conversations with the female staff were laced with sexually suggestive remarks. It is moot whether that constituted sexual harassment. But Republicans, by their vociferous denials, suggested that demonstrating the first would prove the other. To prevent a Thomas defeat, they had to show that Long Dong Silver was a figment of Hill's X-rated imagination...
...Hill said Thomas was a frequent consumer of pornography whose conversations with the female staff were laced with sexually suggestive remarks. It is moot whether that constituted sexual harassment. But Republicans, by their vociferous denials, suggested that demonstrating the first would prove the other. To prevent a Thomas defeat, they had to show that Long Dong Silver was a figment of Hill's X-rated imagination...
...second strategy to defeat the bill, Casey said that Harvard is trying to show that the bill may have unintended harmful consequences...
...After President Bush's defeat in 1992, Mueller accepted a partnership in the blue-chip Boston law firm of Hale and Doar. To the surprise of his former associates, in 1995 he applied for a position in the homicide section of the U.S. Attorney's office in the District of Columbia. This was a huge comedown for a man who had supervised 900 Justice Department prosecutors, but Margolis says Mueller was caught up in the idealism of public service, explaining, "There's just too many young people dying violently in this city, and I want to do my share...