Word: egos
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...Japan's sapped economy and bruised ego, there's a lot at stake. The Japanese have laid out $4.5 billion for new facilities, three times what France spent for the whole show. Sure, the Nikkei is lower than a striker who just shanked a penalty, but football has nearly ousted yakyu (baseball) as Japan's national pastime, and the country boasts more players in the premier European leagues than any other Asian nation. South Korea, too, is out to prove it belongs on football's greatest stage. A five-time participant in the finals, South Korea has never made...
More proof of society's double standards on sex: an Indiana University study found that 40% of girls who had low self-esteem in the seventh grade were having sex by the ninth grade, compared with 18% of girls with a stronger ego. It worked just the other way for boys. Half the boys with high self-esteem were sexually active, vs. just 29% of those with low self-confidence...
...Everything Is Illuminated is written as a duet for two voices. One belongs to Jonathan Safran Foer (or his fictional alter ego of the same name), who relates the history of Trachimbrod, the East European village where his ancestors lived. Trachimbrod is a lyrical, fairy-tale creation, a Yiddish idyll of the Fiddler on the Roof variety, inhabited by randy, gossipy villagers like Bitzl Bitzl the gefilte-fish monger, and the melancholy maiden Brod, the narrator's great-to-the-fifth grandmother, who precociously enumerates 613 varieties of sadness by the time she's 12 years...
Everything Is Illuminated is written as a duet for two voices. One belongs to Jonathan Safran Foer (or his fictional alter ego of the same name), who relates the history of Trachimbrod, the East European village where his ancestors lived. Trachimbrod is a lyrical, fairy-tale creation, a Yiddish idyll of the Fiddler on the Roof variety, inhabited by randy, gossipy villagers like Bitzl Bitzl the gefilte-fish monger, and the melancholy maiden Brod, the narrator's great-to-the-fifth grandmother, who precociously enumerates 613 varieties of sadness by the time she's 12 years...
...Placed next to the appalling ego circuses of Eastern gurus such as Sai Baba or Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, the goings-on at Zen Center were pretty tame fare. But the real lure of Shoes Outside the Door: Desire, Devotion, and Excess at San Francisco Zen Center (Counterpoint; 385 pages) isn't the abuses and failings it chronicles, so much as the fact that they happened in the ever-elusive, and ever-alluring, world of Zen. Of all the Far Eastern spiritualities that Americans began importing as replacements for their own moribund faiths in the '60s and '70s, Zen has always...