Word: dreading
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Such slick maneuvering makes Nonaka the object of dread. "Most of Nonaka's political power owes itself to people's fear of him," says Morita. For a burakumin to inspire fear in political circles is doubly impressive because it is unthinkable in most other spheres. Even though Japan has laws to protect burakumin, they often endure discrimination in school and in the workplace. In the last government survey in 1993, there were 892,000 burakumin counted in 4,442 districts. (Rights groups say the numbers are much higher, perhaps totaling 3 million.) Yet you won't read about the burakumin...
...would like them free of pathogens, thank you, are generally in favor of whatever it takes to keep the disease in check. "Because this virus spreads very fast, and because of its grave consequences," says Alfonzo Torres, a USDA deputy administrator, "it's one of the livestock diseases we dread most...
...dread, of course. But something else. There is such a thing as nostalgia for history. A certain wistfulness for large, shared experience comes over the young...
...Gaza Strip. He threw in some sovereignty over Jerusalem. But Arafat bargained for more and didn't get it, then gambled on the new intifadeh, demolishing Barak's re-election hopes. So Arafat must now face Sharon, who calls him a liar and refuses to shake his hand. The dread is, it could be Beirut all over again...
...predecessor. "Little Sparrow" explores the darker, more fable-like side of the genre; there are repeated references to infant deaths and faithless lovers, and both the title track and her collaboration with the Irish band Altan on her 30-year-old "Down From Dover" evoke the appropriate sense of dread. But in the most ambitious of these efforts, the mountain-gothic "Mountain Angel," Parton's narrative of a woman driven mad by grief is undercut by her cutesy, breathy delivery, a rare misstep for this most intuitive of singers...