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...past new housefronts and tiny gardens. (The kinks and bends were originally designed to slow down cavalry attacks.) By the roadside are vegetable plots as well as piles of rice husks, which will be mixed with vinegar to pickle the crops. Shrines to the monk Jizo and the goddess Kannon, the travelers' protectors, promise safe passage and future discoveries...
...said, ``we could hear the little girl calling okasan, okasan [mother, mother].'' But the fatigued firemen, performing a kind of triage, ignored the dwelling for easier rescues nearby. Now, as they began to dig, the crumpled house was silent. Alone in its rubble stood a large bronze statue of Kannon, a female representation of the Buddha; her name means ``the one who hears cries...
...Barouch '93, Peter C. Nohrnberg '93 and Kannon K. Shanmugam '93 were awarded the scholarships in November, but the British Consulate only released the results yesterday...
...Bradley W. Setser '93, a government concentrator in Quincy; Dan H. Barcouh '93, a biochemical sciences concentrator in North; Harry L. Wolfgang '93, a mathematics concentrator in Adams; Jason M. Jacobs '93, a physics concentrator in Eliot; Jonathan D. Taylor '93, a history and literature concentrator in Adams; and Kannon K. Shanmugam, a classics concentrator in Cabot...
That is a question Japanese carver Koryu Kawaguchi asks as well. On the outskirts of Tokyo, the 70-year-old master carver sits on a tatami mat, his workbench and tools covered with a fine ivory dust. In his hands is an ivory figurine of the Merciful Mother Kannon, which he has been carving for a month. Beside him sits his son Ryusei, 37, a fourth-generation ivory carver. The elder Kawaguchi is a gentle man with a reverence for the gleaming white medium he has spent his lifetime bringing to life. His eyes are weak from the strain...