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...China. Unlike Japan, China has done little to mask its global natural-resources grab. As a result, Japan outranked China in a June survey of soft-power effectiveness in six countries by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Far from China eclipsing Japan, as many once thought, the Middle Kingdom's emergence has actually reawakened international admiration of its neighbor. "There's a strong perception that China's not doing enough for people's rights," says Yasushi Watanabe, co-editor of a new book called Soft Power Superpowers. "Japan is more naturally accepted as a member of the international community...
...image revamp put Mickey's logo in trendy places: on celebrities, in a Sex and the City episode - he was printed on a t-shirt and stretched across Sarah Jessica Parker's chest - as well as in high-end boutiques. In 2002, he appeared in the PlayStation2 video game Kingdom Hearts. And in 2006, he became 3-D for the very first time. Now you can see him on Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, an early morning Disney Channel show designed for children ages 2-6. Or you can book a flight to Disney World and shake his oversized glove yourself...
...Achebe event, titled “From the Kingdom of Childhood,” was the sixth annual lecture for the Committee on African Studies, arranged in conjunction with the W.E.B. DuBois Institute and the Department for African and African American Studies...
...Fundamentalist Christians always quote Jesus in the Gospel of John saying "I am the way. I am the life. Nobody comes into the kingdom of heaven except through me." But what does Jesus mean by "I"?" In his language, Aramaic, the word is translated as "the I within the I." So he may be speaking about himself as a universal spirit. In that case he can't be squeezed into a body or the span of a lifetime...
Every country has veterans of some military conflict to commemorate, and Veterans’ Day exists in a number of other forms around the world. Remembrance Sunday in the United Kingdom involves commemorations at military bases, memorials and churches by people wearing paper poppies on their lapels. In memory of the Armistice and end of the First World War, silence is observed for two minutes. It is then that thoughts turn to service and the meaning of sacrifice...