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Think of it as the Japanese Mardi Gras. Held in May, the 350-year-old Sanja Matsuri festival brings 1.5 million revelers to Asakusa in eastern Tokyo to honor the three founders of the district's Sensoji - a Buddhist temple that is the city's oldest. The throng, more densely packed than any rush-hour train, is an unforgettable spectacle. Young and old are adorned in festive clothes, and pant with the effort of bearing dozens of mikoshi (portable shrines) through Asakusa's 44 residential blocks, while yakuza in loincloths proudly sport their full-body tattoos in a normally forbidden...
...that these men lacked the guts to put themselves in danger but that they worked in a system in which that sort of bravado wasn't necessary or even allowed. Hong Kong saw action realism as a badge of honor; Hollywood was the fantasy factory. And its action-film stars were such valuable commodities, they had to be handled like preemies. The studios were breeding these men for 20-to-30-year careers. Let them perform their most daring stunts? Nah, we have people who do that...
Immediately after banging her gavel to begin yesterday’s Faculty meeting, University President Drew G. Faust opened with a few words, followed by a moment of silence in honor of former Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles who passed away last week.“It would be impossible at this moment, in this room not to be thinking about Jeremy,” she said. “We will have times and occasions to speak about Jeremy in the days and weeks to come, but today I want to ask you for silence, for silence...
Other Harvard affiliates who were awarded the highest journalistic honor include Kennedy School graduate Barton Gellman for his investigation of Vice President Dick Cheney’s powerful influence on policy, as well as two former fellows at Harvard’s Nieman Foundation: Anne Hull for public service reporting and Gene Weingarten for feature writing. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...crystal clear to the country that PNU is extremely reluctant to honor the accord in the first place," ODM Secretary-General Anyang Nyongo said in a statement. Nyongo said Kibaki has "demonstrated his contempt for and reluctance in forming a grand coalition government as the constitution demands and the people of Kenya expect...