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Finally, we are heartened by the new approach to foreign policy adopted by President Obama. We brushed aside criticisms of the president’s chronic bowing habit, as bowing, to the Japanese emperor in particular, is nothing more than a harmless gesture that cultivates trust and respect...
...notion that slavery shouldn't be mentioned, because everyone knows it's bad, but Robert E. Lee should be because, apparently, no one knows he was a great general, is, well, ignorant. But it's a naked emperor ignorant, an ignorant brandished by someone without the wits to know what they don't know, a kind of ignorance squared...
...criminals. Regular visits by Hatoyama's predecessors had been a regular irritant in Japan-China relations. In contrast to Gates' testy visit, Japanese officials rolled out the red carpet in December in Tokyo for Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping, who was granted an audience with Japan's Emperor, at Hatoyama's request. His overtures to China are part of a larger foreign policy agenda to integrate Japan more closely into a growing Asia. He advocates the formation of an East Asian community along the lines of Europe's, with a common regional currency like the euro. Such plans have...
...only foreign correspondent for PAP, the Polish news agency, in the 1960s and '70s, he covered some 27 coups and revolutions around the world, survived firing squads in Africa and befriended the likes of Che Guevara. His reporting formed the basis for widely acclaimed books such as The Emperor, about the life of the eccentric Ethiopian leader Haile Selassie; Shah of Shahs, about the fall of the Iranian ruler Reza Pahlavi; and Imperium, on the last days of the Soviet Union. Salman Rushdie once said of Kapuscinski, "He is worth a thousand whimpering and fantasizing scribblers...
...Tomasz Lubienski says Domoslawski crossed a line when he decided to publicly challenge the reputation of his mentor. "Domoslawski was not a good disciple of Kapuscinski, who was a refined man," Lubienski wrote in Gazeta Wyborcza. "[His book is] about the private life of the man who wrote The Emperor. That's unnecessary and it pushes the book into the gutter." Says another writer, Andrzej Stasiuk, in defense of Kapuscinski: "Would we care about the truth if it was served up in a dull, pretentious way? I read Kapuscinski for the pleasure of reading Kapuscinski. I read his works...