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...have created a new crime classification: oyaji gari, or geezer hunting. Police don't keep stats on such crimes, but say they are increasingly routine. Earlier this year, two boys were convicted of beating to death a banker on a Tokyo train platform?a nihilistic attack whose impulse was disdain. Survivors rarely talk about what happened to them because they're ashamed they couldn't defend themselves. "Men my age are afraid to walk home alone at night," confesses Jinsuke Kageyama, 54, a criminologist in Tokyo. "We call our wives to pick us up at the train station...
...excesses, about the way his ruling circle assesses 7% "for the family" on every business deal. But 30 years of Saddam have instilled in Iraqis a reflexive habit of survival. They seem too tired, too disillusioned, too frightened of one another to plot serious conspiracies. And they have total disdain for the opposition exiles scheming abroad...
...Many Palestinians share Washington's disdain for the corruption, cynicism and authoritarianism of Arafat's administration, and are stridently demanding reform, democratization and accountability of the Palestinian Authority. But one of their demands is for a leadership that will more effectively challenge the Israeli occupation than Arafat has done. One of the major Palestinian criticisms of the PA has been that it failed to protect them from the Israeli onslaught, and that its security chiefs abandoned their men. Those pushing hardest for reform in the PA are also, in many instances, among the most strongly resistant to the idea that...
...ambivalent about hiring someone to cook for them. Would it be worth the expense? (Hayward charges $225, on top of the grocery bill, for about 15 family meals.) How tasty would the food be? Would friends in their neighborhood--affluent but hardly overrun by servants--view the Bachas with disdain? "It sounded pretentious," says Sarah. But she seldom has time to indulge her own passion for cooking, and Hayward's services give her more time with her family. "We're not rushing around every night to pull something together...
...Krazy and Ignatz" series, should it see its end, will make up a cultural loss as significant as finding a complete version of Eric Von Stroheim's "Greed." Like any great art work, during its own time "Krazy Kat," received as much mystified disdain as it got praise from many of the jazz-age "inelectjools." At least now we will be able to judge for ourselves whether Gilbert Seldes was correct when he wrote in 1924: "Krazy Kat, the daily comic strip of George Herriman is, to me, the most amusing and fantastic and satisfactory work of art produced...