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...most famous artists. "This is a rare opportunity," says Shinsuke Utada, a professor emeritus at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. "To have major artists from many different eras is not something you see in every temple or shrine. The priests of Konpira had an eye for good art for a very long time...
...take up the ump post. "Chirac is depriving [Sarkozy] of his government spotlight, betting that without much media exposure at the ump, [his] popularity will dwindle," says one ump official and a former Chirac adviser. Sarkozy doesn't deny the risk, but says he'll stay in the public eye. "There's very little risk you won't be hearing from me," he says. Those who know him are sure he's right. One consultant to many leading conservatives expects him to use the job to snipe at government policy and chip away at any desire Chirac may have...
...instantly beaten them. Wooden information-deliverers like Carol Marin don’t stand a chance against the boisterous Bill O’Reilly and the seductive Paula Zahn. The media are a business, and their business is presenting biased information in a way that catches the eye of their target viewers...
...entrust my health and well-being to a 14-year-old rider named John, whose safety gear I will borrow after his ride. I lean on the eye-high fence to see him last an impressive 7 seconds (in competition, you need 8 to win) on a near-full-grown bull before being tossed off and landing on his head. He hands me his equipment and insists to his hovering cloud of pre-pubescent admirers that he is fine, but I catch him rubbing his head for several minutes afterward. The helmet I wear is his, and it?...
Somehow in the chaos the flesh was ripped from my right shin, leaving a scrape and bruise resembling a long thin rock under my skin. On my way back out of the arena no one looks me straight in the eye, even the bartenders when I go to retrieve my complimentary Coke...