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...know what comes next in politics, in business, in fashion, in art. Whole industries are built on predictions of trends and tastes, political parties risk all on forecasts of voters' views, designers cut their cloth on the basis of what a buyer will want to see in the mirror three seasons hence. Currency traders act on a prediction of what will happen to the value of the yen in the next minute, while actuaries construct tables of risk on the basis of an expected rise in sea temperatures over the next 100 years. We cannot resist our urge to speculate...
...evidence for how wrong the first idea is isn't apparent when you stand naked in front of the mirror, just wait. Or, if you can't wait, compare the ideal human forms represented in, say, Greek statuary with the bodies of the folks queuing up at Disney World or Taco Bell or Ben and Jerry...
...moving on. It is time for me to go, and I am excited for the future. And yet, I know that there will come a time, when all of my things have been packed and loaded, and I watch as Harvard recedes from me in the rear-view mirror of my truck, that I will think on ahead to second semester and regret, for a moment, that it will only be spring...
...Male-host bars?mirror images of nightspots where giggling girls fawn over inebriated businessmen?have been on the fringe of Japan's colorful nightlife for decades, catering to aged sugar mamas and scrawny scroungers with hair gel and overlaundered black suits. Kiss those days sayonara. Japan's host clubs have gone mainstream?without getting overly squeaky clean. The newly burnished male host?sans gold teeth and creepy leer?is Japan's latest celebrity. Hosts are appearing on TV talk shows and publishing memoirs, how-to guides and even business books. A high-profile TV movie about a host club aired...
...Look at yourself in the mirror and think about how you put yourself together in the morning. Then consider what these people lacked for 16 years...