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...rites to the no less awful mysteries of nuclear technology. The painting is filled by a gigantic step-pyramid, the site of Osiris' burial but also, by implication, a nuclear reactor. Osiris' body parts are ceramic fragments scattered at the base, each wired by bright copper cable to his ka, or soul, at the summit of the mastaba, represented by a circuit board. Death and integration: fission and fusion. Through such metaphors, Kiefer sets forth images charged with warning and suffused with hope...
...expected to be signed by both Reagan and Gorbachev this afternoon, will still require a two-thirds vote from the Senate in order to be ratified. The activists filled out several hundred postcards to be sent from the Cambridge community as a petition to Sen. Robert Dole (R-Ka.) and Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) to show public support for the treaty...
...Jeff Norton D 6-3/198 Michigan/Acton, Ma. Todd Okerlund F 6-0/208 Minnesota/Burnsvill e, Mn. Paul Ranheim F 6-1/200 Wisconsin/Edina, Mn. Todd Richards D 5-10/190 Minnesota/Minneapo lis, Mn. Mike Richter G 5-10/185 Wisconsin/Flourtown , Pa. Dave Snuggerud F 6-2/188 Minnesota/Minneton ka, Mn. Jim Sprenger D 5-11/187 Minn-Duluth/Cloque t, Mn. Kevin Stevens W 6-3/215 B.C./Halifax, Ma. Chris Terreri G 5-9/155 N.J. Devils/Warwick, R.I. Eric Weinrich D 6-1/205 Maine/Gardner, Me. Scott Young F 6-1/190 B.U./Clinton...
...Japanese have a new buzz word for this phenomenon: kokusai-ka (internationalization). Kokusai-ka refers to the host of efforts designed to deal with trade frictions, from opening the domestic market to foreigners to investing more heavily in public works, including bridges, highways and housing. The more philosophic interpret kokusai-ka as an end to Japan's historic attempt to remain separate from the world and the beginning of an opening of Japanese hearts and minds to the international community...
Given such rigid attitudes toward anything non-Japanese, many experts feel that true kokusai-ka is a long way off. "Japanese culture hasn't changed a bit," says Researcher Kato. "It still persistently keeps anybody different out." Still, Japan's gradual opening cannot be ignored. It may be fleeting, a calculated response to edgy trade partners, or it may be enduring. Perhaps when the Japanese stop identifying themselves as different from the rest of the world and start seeing themselves as part of it, kokusai-ka will truly flourish...