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...American poet Frank O'Hara once wrote that "the light in Japan respects poets." It's easy to see his point with the Hyakunin Isshu. Moonlight, dawn light and fog-filtered daylight suffuse this anthology, illuminating scenes of delicate natural beauty. As McMillan notes in his introduction, the great Tokugawa-era painters Hon'ami Koetsu and Ogata Korin were but a few of the visual artists drawn to the poems. The latter illustrated one of the earliest and most famous karuta sets, as the major ukiyo-e (Floating World) artists - famed for their depictions of metropolitan life in Edo Japan...
...adopted gsm - the global standard for digital mobile telecoms - as early as 1993, and had pioneered gsm's precursor more than a decade earlier. By the late '90s, mobile-phone penetration levels in Norway were more than double those in France and Germany, according to telecom consultancy Analysys. In light of deregulation, Telenor's savvy for nurturing a customer base from the early stages to maturity looked like its strongest export...
...financial disconnect has brought to light fundamental disagreements about how the initiative’s growth should proceed. While some of the initiative’s members say the University has reneged on its promise to maintain the project’s momentum, central administrators say the imbalance stems from overzealous expansion that lacked budgetary caution...
...also possible that the ability to eat in the library will make it even easier for students to spend long blocks of time there, studying for hours under artificial light. However, it is not the responsibility of the school to regulate students’ eating habits, and Harvard students should be trusted to make their own decisions about when and where they...
...light of the temptation for any new president to preserve expanded executive powers, an unambiguous renunciation of this administration’s policy on torture will be a necessary condition for rebuilding American credibility in the world. And as tired as Americans may be of chronicling the disgraces of this presidency, the burden of passing judgment does not yet lie solely with the historians...