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...year, the Japanese press gets excited about Western school textbooks. More specifically, the press gets excited about the way Japan and the Japanese are depicted in Western school textbooks. A collective howl goes up over the fact that pictures of samurai and geisha still prevail in textbooks from Louisiana or Bavaria or Scotland or wherever. Such images might suggest to ignorant foreigners that modern Japanese still go around brandishing swords. These findings are often followed by instant soundings taken in Paris or Chicago to find out what Westerners really think of Japan. And what Westerners think is rarely found...
...story white house the black mayor now lives in. James R. Venable, Imperial Wizard of the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, was also a lawyer. According to local historian Walter McCurdy, Venable once successfully defended two Black Panthers accused of killing a white policeman in Louisiana. Venable took pay from the Black Panthers, McCurdy says, and gave it to the K.K.K. But that's a long time ago now. Too long for some black residents here to worry about. Let the rebel flag fly over those graves, says Ralph Shipp. "That's all right. They are dead...
...intense, droughts more pronounced, coastal areas ever more severely eroded by rising seas and rainfall scarcer on agricultural land. But if the rise is significantly larger, the result could be disastrous. With seas rising as much as 88 cm, enormous areas of densely populated land - coastal Florida, much of Louisiana, the Nile Delta, the Maldives, Bangladesh - would become uninhabitable. Entire climatic zones might shift dramatically. Agriculture would be thrown into turmoil. Hundreds of millions of people would have to migrate out of unlivable regions...
...Still, public executions - the last of which were in the 1930s in this country - have some surprising proponents. Burl Cain, the warden of Louisiana's Angola prison, thinks future killers might be deterred if they could see the fear in the eyes of condemned inmates. Groups opposing the death penalty have come down on both sides of the issue, some arguing that public views would change if people watched the act of government-sanctioned killings. In 1994, Ohio judge Anthony Calabrese ordered that the execution of double murderer Tyson Dixson be conducted publicly, should Dixson's appeals fail. "We have...
...American Shipbuilding Association, however, doesn't like to call them subsidies, and is determined to get its dough. It has lined up support from coastal-state Republicans, from Majority Leader Trent Lott (from Mississippi) to Appropriations Committee czar Ted Stevens (from Alaska). Democrat John B. Breaux (from Louisiana) recently wrote Bush that the guarantees should in fact be tripled, to $100 million. Lott cosigned...