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...phenomenon has an ugly side, of course - jingoistic youth who can't understand why some Chinese or Koreans might continue to be miffed about comfort women or experiments with bubonic plague, particularly since Japanese textbooks still have a propensity to gloss over such wartime atrocities. But in an ex-imperialist country whose identity was so shattered that it ended up adopting peace as a national virtue - during the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics flocks of dove-shaped balloons were released into the air, underlining the not-so-subtle point that Japan wasn't about to declare war anytime soon - the return...
...This University is damned good at marketing itself to its alumni and to the world. Graduates give generously, comforted by the knowledge that their gifts support the work of the world’s greatest university, whose triumphs make the realities of Harvard College easy to gloss over. Recent events suggest that this university is failing to make the one sales pitch that its history and its future demand the most—to its own undergraduates
...McCain's second objective is to rub some of the shiny gloss off Obama and encourage voters to see the presumptive Democratic nominee for what, Republicans say, his record shows he is - a conventional liberal proposing conventionally liberal solutions to the nation's problems. "The wrong change looks not to the future but to the past for solutions that have failed before and will surely fail us again," McCain said Tuesday. "I have a few years on my opponent, so I am surprised that a young man has bought in to so many failed ideas. Like others before...
...chosen to—sweeping house mailboxes to increase “awareness” of this option—HRL has taken the campaign outside of the realm of hardcore pro-lifers and into the realm of proselytization. More disturbing is the fact that the flyers gloss over the amount of refund, potentially wooing students for money than for morals. Students who feel so strongly about their opposition to abortion are likely already involved in student groups that engage in dialogue about this issue, or they themselves have done the research and discovered this possibility...
...felt was right about the burgeoning, professionalized art world that they encountered in the 1910s, and what was uncomfortable about it. Although outrageously ambitious intellectually, they were rather modest in their output. And if they were the forerunners of artistic cool, they didn't have the iron-hard celebrity gloss that we now associate with successful art. The fun of this exhibition is the evidence of a whole culture or philosophy gradually building up, more or less by chance, from scratch. What you come away with is a great insight into unconventional ways of making art. Duchamp, Ray and Picabia...