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...first books debuted in 2005. "Mobile novels are created and consumed by a generation of young people in Japan that demands to be heard," says John Possman, former head of Tokyo entertainment consultancy Dragonfly Revolution. "It is truly pop culture." It has also become big business. In major book wholesaler Tohan's 2007 best-seller list, five out of the top 10 books in the fiction category are keitai shosetsu, including the top three. The new genre is provoking fierce indignation among Japan's literati, many of whom think that keitai shosetsu should stay on cell-phone screens...
...Nobody is going to be allowed to do anything here.' WAHEED ARSHAD, Pakistani Major General, on reports that the U.S. may expand military and CIA authority to pursue Islamic militants in Pakistan...
Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton edged out Illinois Sen. Barack Obama in the New Hampshire primary yesterday, giving the New York politician a crucial win in her quest to become the first female candidate to be nominated by either major party. In the Republican race, Sen. John McCain defeated former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney, repeating his win in the state that launched the Arizona veteran’s strong showing in the 2000 presidential primaries. Clinton’s victory, by a three point margin with 96 percent of precints reporting, came less than a week after Obama won the Iowa...
...alleged unethical business practices.“Yahoo! has just apologized for giving the Chinese police the names of dissident bloggers, and Google and Microsoft have been accused of the same collusion, but students still favor those companies because they are hip,” he says.SUBPRIME PUBLICITYThe major banks have also received negative attention as a result of this summer’s subprime crisis, an embarrassing stretch for Wall Street firms in which billions of dollars in writedowns were announced and thousands of employees were laid off.But students say that the media blitz did not alter their opinions...
...spring of 1995, I was part of a small press pack that accompanied a wounded Hillary Clinton on her first major international trip as First Lady, to south Asia. She was extremely wary of us at first, but that didn't last very long, as the exotic sights and sounds overwhelmed us all. It was, I suspect, a turning point in Clinton's life. Back home, she had faced dangerous, vitriol-spewing crowds at the end of the health-care battle, but each time she stepped off the big plane with the grand words "United States of America" emblazoned...