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They will continue to employ Doris Jones, Corcoran’s assistant of nearly two decades. Jones cut the red ribbon outside the Harvard Shop symbolizing the change of ownership Friday...
...Improvements in technology have played a major role in Uematsu's work: the release in the U.S. in 1995 of the Playstation platform, with its increased storage capacity and CD sound quality, enabled game developers to employ more sophisticated music. Uematsu, a self-taught guitarist and keyboardist, writes while playing test versions of each game, getting "constant feedback" from the development team. But despite the high-tech aspects of his calling, he is inspired most when "surrounded by nature." Every morning the composer, who lives in Tokyo, walks along the river Tama with his dog Pao, musing on new ideas...
Improvements in technology have played a major role in Uematsu's work: the release in the U.S. in 1995 of the Playstation platform, with its increased storage capacity and CD sound quality, enabled game developers to employ more sophisticated music. Uematsu, a self-taught guitarist and keyboardist, writes while playing test versions of each game, getting "constant feedback" from the development team. But despite the high-tech aspects of his calling, he is inspired most when "surrounded by nature." Every morning the composer, who lives in Tokyo, walks along the river Tama with his dog Pao, musing on new ideas...
...thousands labor throughout Japan in what is surely a multibillion-dollar industry. For the salaryman customers, hostess bars, with their posh atmosphere, beautiful women and steady flow of drinks, are a choice venue in which to try to impress a client or close a business deal. Most hostess clubs employ Japanese and other Asian women, but beginning in the early 1980s, more and more began to stock Western women. Of all the hostesses in Japan, the highest paid tend to be pretty, English-speaking, Caucasian, blond. Lucie met every requirement...
...argument that my fellow conservatives (including President George W. Bush) tend to employ is that the death penalty deters homicides. Even if we execute an innocent person, they say, the effect is a net increase in the number of innocent lives saved. I would agree with this, if only the facts supported the assertion. The average murder rate in U.S. states with the death penalty is 8 per 100,000 people, while it is only 4.4 in states without a legalized death penalty. Between 1952 and 1967, California had an execution once every two months, while there were no executions...