Word: kurisu
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...think that members of the council feel that Ian [Nichols] was forced out and that contributed to them voting for Jason [Lurie],” UC Financial Committee Chair Blake M. Kurisu ’07 said. “I don’t think we could have conveyed that Ian wasn’t forced out in anymore clear terms than we have...
...Blake M. Kurisu ’07, the newly elected chair of FiCom, bemoans the fact that Nicolais will not be around to show him the ropes. “It’s been a tough week,” Kurisu said. “I mean Teo really kind of built the grants system from the ground up and to try to learn it all has been tough...
...Until recently, even the suggestion that Japan take up arms?for virtually any reason?was taboo. As late as 1978, Joint Staff Council Chairman Hiromi Kurisu was sacked for his seemingly reasonable comment that the country's military?pointedly called the Self-Defense Force (SDF) might take "extralegal" measures if the homeland ever came under surprise attack. Any Japanese politician who so much as suggested amending the pacifist clause of the constitution was effectively committing career suicide. Shinichi Kitaoka, a law professor and diplomatic history expert at the University of Tokyo, says the government "long ago decided that its hold...
...local tourist bureau. In her latest work particularly, the haunting yet hopeful Father of the Four Passages (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 233 pages; $23), the author seems impervious to her state's natural splendor, focusing instead on the blighted emotional landscape of her characters. Chief among them is Sonia Kurisu, the youngest daughter of a Japanese-American family living in Hilo. After a fraught childhood, Sonia stumbles through addictions to drugs and the men who provide them and undergoes three abortions before giving birth to an autistic...