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Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku was indeed the attack's architect, but his intent was not to "annihilate their Pacific Fleet with a single attack," as he declares in the movie. His more subtle aim was to discourage America from interfering in Japanese affairs by showing the Yanks that Japan was a force. He hoped a quick victory in Hawaii would prompt the U.S. to petition for peace in the Pacific, which would allow expansionist Japan, already on the move in China, to pursue oil and other supplies in Sumatra, Borneo and Java. Japan felt it was under a tight deadline...
...games as the Crimson has on its plate. Then, it had the privilege of playing the No. 2 team in the nation in the Eagles on Monday night. B.C., determined to end the Terriers six-year title reign, may have won anyway, but a tired Harvard limping into the Fleet Center stood even less of a chance...
...Joji Obara was born in 1952 to an impoverished Korean family in postwar Osaka. His father had been a scrap collector, then a taxi driver who worked his way into owning a fleet of cars and a string of pachinko parlors from which he amassed a fortune. Perhaps mindful of the discrimination faced by Koreans, when the young Obara - then known by his Korean name Kim - was asked to pen a farewell sentiment in his junior-high class yearbook, he wrote: "Upbringing is more important than family name...
...surprisingly, China reacted most vehemently to the Bush-Rumsfeld speech, saying the U.S. "has violated the ABM Treaty, will destroy the balance of international security forces and could cause a new arms race." Beijing knows even the initially modest system proposed by Clinton--a fleet of 100 missiles designed to knock out as many as 25 warheads from the heavens--could render obsolete their 20 single-warhead, long-range missiles, which can reach the West Coast of America. Once that system is in place, Beijing's leverage with the U.S.--especially on the touchy topic of Taiwan--could be crippled...
...consumer tax credits to help subsidize sales of high-mileage hybrid-fuel vehicles, which are still costly to produce. In any case, Ford will begin selling a hybrid-fuel version of its small SUV, the Escape, in 2003. Not to be outdone, General Motors says it will have its fleet of zero-emissions buses on the roads soon. "Two years ago, people couldn't wait to distance themselves from what we were doing," says Ford with a chuckle of satisfaction. "Now they announce that whatever we're doing, they can do better...