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...ordinance designating Feb. 22-the 100th anniversary of Japan's annexation of the islands-as Takeshima Day. Yu Masuda, an administrator in the Shimane prefectural government, says the goal was simply "to generate some attention" within Japan for the region's fishermen who suffer from not being able to hunt in the disputed waters. Yet the Korean response to Takeshima Day was overwhelmingly bitter, with the local government's initiative perceived as evidence of Japan's widespread, unrepentant nationalism. Korean protesters set up anti-Japan campaigns, pulled students and athletes from Japan-sponsored tournaments, canceled sister-city arrangements with Shimane...
...years ago. His resume boasts a stint as chairman of the American Petroleum Institute, which lobbies on behalf of over 400 oil and gas interests in Washington D.C., and work lobbying for the Dallas Chamber of Commerce, but no knowledge of Arabic. More importantly perhaps, his former employer, Hunt Consolidated Oil, gave $250,000 to Bush’s reelection campaign. Mr. Oberwetter is, in short, a typical American ambassador...
...packing Quincy residents try to “assassinate” other participants. Versions of assassin have been played at Harvard since at least 1981, when three freshmen organized a game. The rules of the game vary, but participants generally form teams, each of which is assigned to hunt the members of another team. The last team standing wins. “You stop sleeping in your bed, you stop sleeping period,” says Matthew D. O’Brien ’07, who also organized Quincy’s game. “Last year...
Almost every senior I know who is still job-searching seems to be ditching the hunt and spending time on more creative pursuits. New and imaginary life goals are concocted on the fly and seem to fall into two categories—“awesome way I can get rich and basically continue to live my college life and watch movies/drink all day” or “really depressing way I’m going to end up when I’m jobless, but if I joke about it maybe it’ll make...
...college seniors hurtle into the job hunt, little fibs on the rsum--for example, claiming a degree when they're three credits shy of graduation--seem harmless enough. So new grads ought to read this memo now: those 20-year-old falsehoods on cream-colored, 32-lb. premium paper have poleaxed so many high-profile executives that you wonder who in the business world hasn't got the message. A rsum listing two fictitious degrees led to the resignation of David Edmondson, CEO of RadioShack, in February. Untruthful curricula vitae have also hobbled the careers of executives...