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...morning of the 50th anniversary of Japan's surrender, Murayama last week told an assembly of journalists at his official residence that "during a certain period of time in the not too distant past" Japan followed a "mistaken national policy" of "colonialism and aggression" that caused "tremendous damage and suffering to the people of many countries." He expressed his "heartfelt apology" and promised to eradicate "self-righteous nationalism...
None of these societies is Nirvana. Indeed, the anthropological record provides little support for Jean-Jacques Rousseau's notion of the "noble savage" and rather more for Thomas Hobbes' assertion that life for our distant ancestors was "nasty, brutish, and short." The anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon has written of his first encounter with the Yanomamo: "The excitement of meeting my first Indians was almost unbearable as I duck-waddled through the low passage into the village clearing." Then "I looked up and gasped when I saw a dozen burly, naked, filthy, hideous men staring at us down the shafts of their...
...isolating and at times depressing effects may come from more communal technologies. The inchoate Internet is already famous for knitting congenial souls together. And as the capacity of phone lines expands, the Net may allow us to, say, play virtual racketball with a sibling or childhood friend in a distant city. But at least in its current form, the Net brings no visual (much less tactile) contact, and so doesn't fully gratify the social machinery in our minds. More generally the Net adds to the information overload, whose psychological effects are still unknown but certainly aren't wholly benign...
...cart before the horse in proposing that the U.S. put aside its differences with other nations in the region--Vietnam, India, Japan and Russia--in order to "contain" China. Whatever threat China's military poses is felt by its neighbors first. America and the rest of the world are distant targets. It makes more sense for the U.S. government to push for a resolution of our economic and political problems with China's neighbors rather than to expect those countries to take the lead in forming a coalition against a regime that, given time, is likely to fall...
...being ravished, so are the ears. Conductor Jane Glover leads a scintillating performance by unusually nimble-fingered string players and by singers of passionate virtuosity--notably countertenor David Daniels in the title role and soprano Dana Hanchard as his reluctant Turkish prize. What seems at first arcane and distant becomes hypnotically human--opera on a level of taste, imagination and musicality that would do any of the world's most celebrated opera houses proud...