Word: kyoto
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...college programs. The initiative stops short of endorsing stricter fuel-efficiency standards for motor vehicles, which are strongly opposed by the auto industry. But it calls for market-based legislation such as a "cap-and-trade" bill to curb overall emissions similar to the measures in the controversial Kyoto treaty. Federal cap-and-trade legislation is now being drafted by New Mexico senators Pete Domenici (R) and Jeff Bingaman...
...DIED. SHIRO AZUMA, 93, Japanese World War II veteran who was one of the few ex-soldiers to admit to having participated in the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, in which as many as 300,000 Chinese were killed; in Kyoto. In his diary, published in 1987 as My Nanking Platoon, Azuma graphically described rapes and beheadings. "We were taught that we were a superior race," he told CNN in 1998. "But the Chinese were not. So we held nothing but contempt for them...
...clumsy apprentice to confirmed, graceful geisha. Zhang’s depth of performance is best demonstrated in a scene in which Sayuri debuts in a solo dance, swaying crazily over the stage, her hair flying wildly over a white kimono—while she is performing for all of Kyoto, her facial expressions convey that she is personally dancing for the Chairman (Ken Watanabe) whom she loves. There is always the risk that Hollywood’s sound and visual effects will ruin the text’s literary merit, but the cinematic techniques of “Memoirs...
...According to Sands, members of the Bush administration have divided international treaties that the U.S. had helped to create into ¨good and bad.” The World Trade Organization and other monetary and patent agreements are “good.” The Kyoto Protocol, the International Criminal Court and certain war conventions are “bad”— deemed “threats to American sovereignty” by organizations like the New American Century. “For these people,” he said, “9/11...
...Koizumi is still basking in his party's landslide election victory last September, and he is one of Bush's few solid-gold allies. So the overnight stay in the former imperial capital of Kyoto-one of the few cities left where geishas, ancient temples and rickshaws abound-was a way for Bush to draft off of Koizumi's triumph. It was also an opportunity to touch down on friendly turf before plunging into the chaos of an international economic summit in Busan, South Korea, a honeymooners' paradise now on lockdown by police massing on every downtown corner with riot...