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...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...
Although there has been recent furor over recently-released Census Bureau statistics revealing that fewer than 25 percent of American households are nuclear families, what has been overshadowed is the more important fact that for the first time that the number of nuclear families has been exceeded by the number of Americans living alone. Harvard graduates are leaving Harvard to enter into an increasingly atomized and individualized world...
...statements, coming at a time when relations with Beijing are already tense because of the spy-plane incident and the just-announced sale?ignoring China's fierce protests?of a sprawling weapons package to Taiwan, caused a furor and renewed doubts about whether he has the touch to handle tricky international issues. Senator John Kerry, a leading Democrat, rushed to the Senate floor to complain that with his unscripted remarks, Bush "made a major policy change with absolutely no consultation with members of Congress or with our allies in the region." Others suspected that Bush confused plain speaking with sharp...
...statements--coming at a time when relations with Beijing are already tense because of the spy-plane episode and the just announced sale, over China's fierce protests, of a sprawling weapons package to Taiwan--caused a furor and renewed doubts about whether he has the touch to handle tricky international issues. Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, a leading Democrat, rushed to the Senate floor to complain that with his unscripted remarks, Bush "made a major policy change with absolutely no consultation with members of Congress or with our allies in the region." Others suspected that Bush confused plain speaking with...
...reasonably good news and no really bad news making the FBI look bad. Freeh has managed to convince the oversight committee on the Hill that once he found out about Hanssen he went after him vigorously. And other things have been going pretty well for the FBI. The Waco furor has pretty much died out. And as anyone who watches the financial markets will tell you: It?s always good to sell when your stock is high...