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...touchy about what some call "the Fujiyama-geisha view of Japan." It is indeed patronizing to admire a country only for stereotypical images of the past. To be sure, anyone who tells a Japanese taxi driver that he is from Chicago will be subjected to remarks about gangsters, and Dutch visitors will hear more about tulips and windmills than they might wish, but that is different. They are not Japanese...
...Japanese empire in Korea, Manchuria, Taiwan and the South Pacific, with its grandiose government buildings, its high-minded schemes to improve the natives and its harsh authoritarianism was a form of mimicry, too. To be civilized you had to have an empire. The British had one and the Dutch and the French, so why not the Japanese? That Americans and Europeans began to resent Japanese empire-building and tried to find ways to curb Japanese ambitions was seen by many Japanese, not entirely without reason, as a form of racial discrimination. Japan wanted more than anything to be taken seriously...
...largest and most engaging of the exhibits is that of Dutch artist Rineke Dijkstra, whose photographs are a striking combination of documentary form and individual portraiture. Rather than defining her subjects through candid snapshots or in personal settings, Dijkstra uses universal locations or themes to document how individuals define themselves in similar contexts...
Mercy-killing foes feel emboldened by the legal uncertainties. A psychologist must agree that Oregon applicants don't suffer "depression causing impaired judgment," but critics say that standard is vague. Dutch opponents also focus on the emotionally impaired. "Vulnerable patients who consider themselves to be a burden might opt for euthanasia while in fact they would be happier with improved care," says Henk Jochemsen of the Dutch Center for Medical Ethics...
...Beth Israel hospital. She says that is sometimes the only solution for dying people crushed by fatigue and darkness. Says Shaiova: "What are you going to do, just give them Prozac? That can fail for people who have everything to live for." Can bureaucrats really settle such issues? The Dutch will point...