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...countrymen, Takako Doi is clearly different, even at first sight. At 5 ft. 6 in., she is tall for a Japanese woman. When she speaks, people hear a great deep rumble with just a hint of grit. In a land where unmarried women are considered somehow incomplete, Doi remains steadfastly single. But the leader of the Japan Socialist Party has used her difference to advantage. Says Shinobu Tabata, her mentor at Doshisha law school in Kyoto: "She was big, loud and pushy to start with. I knew from the first day she came into my office that she would make...
...parents seemed to think that this piece of 16th century logic, combined with a bit of Texas grit and determination, would make my switch from life as an only child in Dallas to life with at least four roommates in the Northeast an easy...
...MANIACS: BLIND MAN'S ZOO (Elektra). Love songs like petitions, songs of conscience that come straight from the heart. This is a band with folkie inclinations, rock grit and a graceful way with a cry of pain. Poison in the Well, an unfortunately timely tune about environmental pollution, ought to be piped into the Exxon boardroom...
...MANIACS: BLIND MAN'S ZOO (Elektra). Love songs like petitions, songs of conscience that come straight from the heart. This is a band with folkie inclinations and rock grit, and a graceful way with a cry of pain: Poison in the Well, an unfortunately timely tune about environmental pollution, ought to be piped in to the Exxon boardroom...
...Southern belt has claimed a monopoly on the "true-grit" of women's lacrosse teams for the past few years...