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...enlightens with the plight of the burakumin. She thoroughly intertwines the tales of three dynamic characters—Lois, a Harvard-educated painter, Shintaro, the buraku, and a stockbroker usually known as Max or Jack. She deftly uncovers the seediness of the cosmopolitan gaijin (foreigner) world of nightclubs and gin-and-tonics, blackmail and insider trading. Her most delightful descriptions are of these underworld dealings and of the intrigues in the personal lives of the protagonists, each of whom loves the one member of the trio who doesn’t love him or her in return...
...emotional attachment to royalty and progressive folk did not miss those deference-filled times at all. An editorial in the newspaper meanwhile claimed the nation had created an "idealized image" of the Queen Mother, who after all had lived "a life of anachronistic extravagance" - and enjoyed her tipple of gin...
...tobacco was in trouble. Pushing 40, Andrew was wondering what to do with himself when local entrepreneurs suggested hemp. Products have been made from the versatile plant for thousands of years. Early American planters grew it widely; George Washington sowed it on four of his farms. But the cotton gin--and later nylon--all but killed the industry. Beginning in the late 1980s, hemp products enjoyed a renaissance, at first as novelty items for liberals. Greens love hemp because it's a renewable resource and an effective rotation crop that requires little or no herbicide. Nutritionists and vegetarians found that...
...after the party, Jackson refused comment. “Talking about what Holly did to me behind that bush in the Lev[erett] courtyard would just be too arousing,” he said. Vargas, who had consumed a Nalgene bottle full of Bloody Mary mix and gin earlier that evening, remembered nothing that occurred after 5 p.m. “I wonder if I told Kris that I liked him. God, that would be so embarrassing,” she said, also mentioning that her bra, underwear and emergency condoms were somehow missing and/or soiled...
...course, hasn't been charged with anything yet. But in the emerging court of public opinion he's become a radioactive character in a drama tailor-made for a class war. Democrats are poised to gin up every kind of Congressional committee they can think of this spring to very loudly look into the matter of why, on one hand, there are a host of impoverished Enron employees out there who had their non-diversified nest eggs cracked when the company's 401(k) plan was "frozen" during the stock's worst slide - and Lay and Enron executives...