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...That his case has become a focal point for U.S.-Japan relations bodes badly for Woodland, as does continuing media coverage of subsequent stupid escapades by servicemen. Over a single steamy week in late July, one U.S. serviceman in Okinawa fired a BB gun at pizza-delivery boys, another tipped over a stranger's motor scooter, another set fire to a car and a Lance Corporal Marine got sentenced to five years in Japanese prison for repeated arson attacks on stores...
...children lost their fathers before they were born. The plan for the memorial is to feature a simple list of names, and organizers intend to leave plenty of space for future additions. Parvez Imroz of the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons says the memorial will allow relatives a focal point for their grief. "They can offer fateha (prayers)," he says. "The memorial will become an emotional sanction for them...
Yellowstone, established in 1872 as the first national park, has become a focal point in the latest chapter in the epic Battle for the West that has raged for two centuries. The Bush Administration is pushing hard to open up large tracts of public land to drilling, logging, nuclear-waste storage and off-road vehicles. Whether it means exploring for oil in the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, easing up on Clinton Administration road closings that put a third of the national forests off limits to logging or suspending new listings on the Endangered Species Act, the message...
...Erdogan's turn to weep tears, but of joy. In 1999 he was released after serving four months of a 10-month sentence. On June 22 Turkey's Constitutional Court banned the Virtue Party for being a "focal point of anti-secular"; activities, a development that leaves Erdogan, 47, in perfect position to lead a large number of rebel M.P.s, tired of the autocratic leadership of the disbanded Virtue Party, into a new party of their...
...Harvard (with the possible exception of Mather House) is not a state university. Fraternities and sororities, while present, are not a bedrock of campus community. Athletics, though diverse and active, are not a focal point of school spirit. This is not good or bad; it’s just different. Yet this is an important factor to consider if the size of the crowd at a Saturday football game will make or break your college experience...