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...naval mission. Yet Aso and Fukuda, like Abe, both support extending Japanese refueling, and they have other things in common. Their family political DNA runs deep. Aso's grandfather was Shigeru Yoshida, a China-bashing leader who called for Japan to rely on American military protection so it could focus on developing an export-led economy. Fast-forward half a century and Aso, a former Foreign Minister, staunchly supports the U.S.-Japan security alliance, while antagonizing China by defending visits of Japanese statesmen to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, where war criminals are memorialized. Meanwhile, Fukuda's father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heirs Apparent | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

...interior design, in entirely natural tones, created by Studio Glitt's Noriyoshi Muramatsu and the ubiquitous Super Potato. Amid a smart-casual setting of stone, wood and glass, you'll find the expansive main dining room, an upstairs bar and a terrace for "outdoor dining" (read: smoking). But the focus, quite rightly, is on the food, not decor. An unstructured menu - Zuma dispenses with the usual distinctions between starters and mains - will have you marveling and grunting over things like baby chicken marinated in barley miso and roasted on cedar wood, or fresh cold tofu with grated wasabi and other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hong Kong's Zuma Nights | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

Haber's lyrics, which focus on his "entourage of completely wasted people," reflect what it's like to live in a society fraught with uncertainty and violent change. One song, Let It Go, is both an exhortation to ignore one's mounting problems and an elegiac farewell to the city's golden moment that followed the Cedar Revolution. "It's an Arab thing," explains Haber. "They always go back to the ruins and cry and remember their lovers. In Beirut it happens every decade--the city is destroyed and then rebuilt. It disappears and then appears. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard: Beirut | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

...incoming vice president for alumni affairs and development, Tamara E. Rogers ’74, told The Crimson earlier this month that University-wide financial aid will be an ongoing fundraising focus even before the capital campaign begins...

Author: By Claire M. Guehenno and Laurence H. M. holland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Faust May Boost Aid to Graduate Students | 9/19/2007 | See Source »

...Faust sent a letter to the Harvard community, placing the undergraduate curricular review, expansion into Allston, interdisciplinary science initiatives, and financial aid for graduate students (see story, left) as her top priorities. Faust’s list echoed those of her predecessor, Derek C. Bok, who set out to focus on the curricular review, Allston, and science policy during his interim term last year. Faust, who took office on July 1, also outlined a theme that could figure as a defining mark of her presidency—“to work to become a university known more for bridges...

Author: By Claire M. Guehenno and Laurence H. M. holland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: In Letter, Faust Echoes Predecessor’s Priorities | 9/19/2007 | See Source »

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