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When night falls outside the sprawling Kadena Air Force Base in the center of Okinawa, the streets turn into a bacchanalian fest of hard drinking, loud music and raucous, sweaty dancing. American servicemen are on the prowl for liquor and a good time. The local girls, Okinawans and Japanese, come out too, looking for some fun with the buff, dollar-rich and female-deprived American boys. Tattooed guys in muscle shirts and cargo pants rub against women in midriff-baring Tshirts and tight jeans, and as the crowd spills from bars onto sidewalks, the night shifts into hormonal overdrive...
...Okinawa, geopolitics seem abstract, but life in the shadow of the American military does produce strange anomalies. On Saturday and Sunday, following the furor over Friday's alleged rape, the Kadena base opened its gates to visitors for an "American Fest" with carnival rides, a haunted house and a menu of hotdogs, hamburgers and barbecued ribs. One of the visitors, 27-year-old Kaori Teruya, stepped inside a huge transport plane, the reports of the rape attack not far from her mind. "My girlfriends and I are always bothered by these American servicemen," Teruya said. "I am scared." The disturbing...
...Bush managed to stick his neck pretty far out in front of his own Congress, expressing a confidence in getting "fast track" negotiating authority (through which he would be able to send future agreements home for an up-and-down vote rather than face a potentially crippling Hill amendment-fest) that few of those folks share. And he got a good look at the intra-hemisphere divisions that will be the big stumbling block for FTAA negotiations in the next few years...
Harvard’s theater community is active and wacky, with the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club running shows nearly every weekend of the year and the Hasty Pudding Theatrical’s all-male, humor filled drag fest each spring. Improvisational comedy, led by the Instant Gratification Players and On Thin Ice are good for a pre-party weekend activity...
After Cisco, bellwether of tech bellwethers, reported dire earnings news and direr layoffs Monday evening, NASDAQ-watchers cringed for another depressing sell-fest - but the markets shrugged it off. TIME personal finance columnist Daniel Kadlec looks around and sees the mood changing: When bad news no longer surprises, it's time for these markets to start climbing back uphill. At least until summer...