Word: kyoto
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...other issues, Bush, in arguing against the Kyoto environmental agreement, seemed unaware of the scientific consensus that pollution does indeed cause global warning. He claimed to be tolerant of gays, but he's on the record as being adamantly opposed to hiring an openly gay person in his Administration. And his running mate, Dick Cheney, was forced to back off on his support for recognition of gay and lesbian relationships. Bush got positively gleeful over sending the three men who dragged James Byrd on the back of a truck to the death chamber, when only two are going (the other...
...throwaway fanaticism that entails a horror of self-importance. Koetsu was not a professional artist. He raised amateurism to an extreme level. The rougher and more summary his work, the greater its appeal to the cultivated. He has always been associated with the "Renaissance" of the city of Kyoto, then Japan's capital, after the ferociously destructive civil wars of the 16th century, when Japan was finally stabilized under three successive autocratic warlords. Rather as Italians thought their Renaissance was an upwelling of disciplined classicism--Rome reborn from the ashes of "barbarous" Gothic--so the Kyoto Renaissance strove to recall...
...complete sinecure: the ruling warlord, Tokugawa Ieyasu, ordered the seppuku, or ritual suicide, of one of Koetsu's circle, the tea master Furuta Oribe, for some real or imagined disloyalty. But Koetsu ended his days in dignified security, as the quasi-religious head of a community at Takagamine, near Kyoto, part artists' colony and part monkish village...
...OLYMPICS, Oct. 2]. Not having to watch in tense anticipation no doubt improved their mental health. Since Americans are accustomed to receiving news in real time, they might have learned that slowing things down is sometimes a good thing. Even so, they missed some real nail biters. SHINICHI MIYACHI Kyoto, Japan...
...most contentious issues is the United States' response to global warming. As a senator and later as Vice President, Gore played an important role in formulating an international response to the threat of global climate change. Bush, however, argues against the Kyoto protocol. Like his father in the 1980s, Bush calls for further research before taking action against. In last Tuesday's debate, Bush stated that he would not let the U.S. carry the burden for cleaning up the world's air. He is correct in asserting that excluding India and China from the treaty exempts the world...