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...slight feeling of dread," admits 33-year-old farmer Yasushi Furushima, who visited China a few years afterward. "But their quantity wasn't very good." China, of course, caught up fast: today, its exports account for more than two-thirds of the tatami market in Japan. In a last ditch measure to protect its farmers, Japan last year slapped import duties on Chinese tatami, along with leeks and shiitake mushrooms, other endangered cash crops. Bad move. China retaliated by putting tariffs on Japanese cars, air conditioners and mobile phones, businesses worth $700 million annually - seven times more than the farm...
...accompanied by eight helicopters and at least two armored humvees. Local Afghans said that when the Americans burst into the school, they found Afghan fighters sleeping and began spraying the beds with gunfire. A guard named Hamdullah, who evaded the attack by hiding in a ditch, told TIME he heard men inside the school plead, "For the love of Allah, do not kill us. We surrender." According to villagers, the Americans shot most of their victims at close range. After two hours, the commandos choppered out; an AC-130 gunship hovering overhead then incinerated the school and several former Taliban...
After one final rhyme we arrive in Central Square and ditch the car. A semi-legal parking job, but since when were Cambridge cops picky? (A handful of parking tickets should have told him: always.) And wouldn’t The Crimson pick...
...Rather than follow Sharon?s recommendations to ditch Arafat, U.S. officials reportedly advised the Israeli leader to reconsider his own tactics. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported Thursday that National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, making clear that she was speaking for the President, told Israeli defense minister Benjamin Ben Eliezer that by keeping Arafat under virtual house arrest in Ramallah, the Israelis may actually be actually be building rather than undermining Arafat's political standing...
...like any that I have heard before, not a rocket or a grenade", he says. He could make out only a strange vehicle, and a dot of red light that disappeared as quickly as it had appeared. He rushed back to alert the others, before diving into a ditch, where he cowered for ten minutes, listening as his friends were shot. "I could hear them crying, 'Allah help me,' " he says, "They were saying, 'For the love of Allah do not kill us.' " According to one translation of Hamdullah's account, he claims to have heard the men plead...