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...impossible?and not just because of their Barbie-doll proportions. They have shirked marriage, preferring to live together, and spend half the year abroad in exotic locales like Monaco and Bermuda. They dress in Ungaro if they dress at all. Kyoko never goes out without her 24-carat diamond ring; Mika has her G-cup bras custom-made (they won't confirm or deny plastic surgery). "To Japanese, we are like anim? characters," Kyoko sighs over a five-course dinner in a private room at their favorite Tokyo restaurant. Mika nods. (By Mika's estimate, her older sibling does...
...TIME: You look lovely today. Mika Kano (younger sister, wearing a pale yellow linen pants suit and revealing, sequined tank top): Thank you. Kyoko Kano (older sister, in a ruffly magenta top, slinky black pants and a 24-carat diamond ring): People look to us as style leaders. But this is one more aspect in which we simply do what we please. We never follow fads; we create them. Mika: My sister has the uncanny ability to spot clothing or accessories abroad that within the year become the rage in Japan. Kyoko: It's true. Japanese women are followers. They...
Junger touches on everything from the war in Kosovo to the deadly diamond trade in Sierra Leone, the dispute between Greece and Turkey over the island of Cyprus to the moving tale of the last living whale harpoonist, Athneal Ollivierre, from the Caribbean island of Bequia. In doing so, we learn little about the greater geopolitical issues involved. Instead we see the men and women who are left behind when war ends and those who view forest fires less as an uncontrolled fire and more as a chance for employment and overtime...
...major players in the nations’s civil war are the freely elected government, which is backed by the UN and a host of neighboring West African countries, and a band of militia rebels who, among other things, want to control Sierra Leone’s profitable diamond mines. The rebels call themselves the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) and are responsible for the death and maiming of over 10,000 Sierra Leonians...
...capturing 500 UN peacekeepers. Then in November of 2000 another peace accord was signed and some of the violence in the western part of the state, including Freetown, subsided. The RUF still controls much of the east, however, including Sierra Leone’s prosperous and contentiously coveted diamond mines...