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When Pearl Harbor was hit, Takeo Iguchi was in Washington, D.C., where his father was stationed as a Japanese diplomat. By the time the war was over, he was in Tokyo, where he survived the city's horrific firebombing- and still has scars on his hands to prove it. When I recently had lunch with Iguchi, the 75-year-old diplomat-turned-academic brought up the Clint Eastwood film Letters from Iwo Jima, which he had seen the previous day. He wondered aloud whether the film would resonate with Japanese today, most of whom had been born after...
...intra-Muslim schism stirred by the chaos in Iraq and Sunni fears of Iran's Middle East ambitions. Last month, Qassem and a colleague traveled to Saudi Arabia to hold an unprecedented meeting with King Abdullah - Saudi Arabia is a key backer of the Lebanese government and known to harbor deep suspicions about Iranian objectives throughout the region...
Ever since the British founded the city in 1841, its harbor has made Hong Kong a major stop on trade routes, its dockside warehouses stuffed with silks and other valuable wares of Asia. Hong Kong prospered as China's entrepôt, and traders like Li & Fung had tight links to the Chinese market. But when the Communist Party took power in China in 1949, exports from the mainland slowed to a trickle. Hong Kong then became a formidable manufacturing hub in its own right, until the colony's growing wealth (per capita income is second only to Japan...
...that a lot of these candidates flow through the [Institute of Politics], and we get a chance to grill them.” He was not the only Lamont who expressed excitement at his impending arrival on campus. Emily H. Lamont ’09 said she did not harbor any concerns about having her father right around the corner. “He’s not usually protective, so I don’t think it’ll be a problem,” she said. “I think it’ll be great...
...What accounts for Hong Kong's importance? Ever since the city was founded by the British in 1841, its harbor has been a major stop on trade routes, its dockside warehouses stuffed with silks and the other valuable wares of Asia. Hong Kong prospered as China's entrep?t, and its traders had tight links to the Chinese market; Li & Fung, for example, was founded as a trading company in Guangzhou in 1906. But when the Communist Party took power in China in 1949, exports from China slowed to a trickle. Hong Kong then became a formidable manufacturing...