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...this summer, with Tigermania everywhere, the team hopes to teach life a thing or two. The Tigers are being buoyed by a Japanese pitcher who's returned from the New York Yankees. Their manager is one of those Japanese of Korean descent otherwise pushed away from the headlines. Their distinctive rocket-shaped balloons have been exported as far away as Texas. Local politicians disport themselves on TV eating traditional lunches with the dishes served in the shape of the Tigers' logo...
Author Donna Jackson Nakazawa is of European descent; her husband is Japanese American. They planned to raise their two kids to be color-blind, but found they couldn't ignore the supermarket stares and curious comments about the children's appearance. In her new book, Does Anybody Else Look Like Me? (Perseus), Nakazawa offers multiracial parents ideas on how to cope. Among her suggestions: discuss race inside the family before kids hear about it elsewhere; invite kids to learn the languages associated with their family heritage; consider sending children to multiracial summer camps; and teach kids about the members...
...Leptis Magna. "Immediately there was the sense?which I've had in only a few places in the world?of entering not so much a physical space as a force field, a place where time has stood its ground." But Leptis is only a brief sojourn on his inexorable descent, which culminates in a total breakdown in a Detroit diner...
...most consistently popular Prime Minister since the 1960s. But at the risk of offering one of those gloomy prognoses he is so good at confounding, I would argue that Blair has reached the apogee of his premiership. He isn't out of fuel, but he is beginning his descent, heading toward a legacy substantially less than might be expected from an energetic, skilled leader with a huge parliamentary majority. The big forces constraining Blair's future are evident in the minicrises that have recently dogged him. After years of complex, elegant waffling over the euro, he announced in early June...
...says mirrors society's struggle between its anarchic and restrictive instincts. Lady's Ellida must choose between her staid husband and a wild, mysterious sailor, and Richardson makes the role a journey into madness and back. The Master Builder must choose between a dangerous, young temptress and a safe descent into old age, and Stewart reaches tremulously into the character's insecurities. And Brand's eponymous preacher must choose to sacrifice everything, even wife and child, for his God, giving Fiennes an opportunity to examine cold, superficially rational religious extremism. For Noble, Ibsen's characters, conceived in the 19th century...