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...helping Third World development and atoning for its World War II guilt, Japan's almsgiving is prompted by enlightened self-interest. "If you want to see which countries are most important politically to Japan, just look down the list at how much aid they spend in each one," says Nathaniel Thayer, an expert in Asian studies at Johns Hopkins University. About two-thirds of Tokyo's assistance goes to Asia, a proportion that reflects its stake in the region as both a market for Japanese products and a source of cheap labor...
...John Updike reaches back 200 years to put himself in direct dialogue with another great realist. New England Puritan writer, Nathaniel Hawthrone. Though the pastoral New England village of The Scarlet Letter belongs to history, Updike explores the same questions which perplexed that less permissive landscape. The notions of tradition, morality, religion and womanhood that dominate Hawthrone's 18th century world are also Updike's concerns...
...Roger's Version (1986), John Updike constructed a plot with some teasing but unacknowledged similarities to Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter: an unfrocked New England minister named Roger broods over the infidelity of his wife. This time out, the author makes his indebtedness perfectly clear. S., Updike's 32nd book and 13th novel, opens with two quotations from The Scarlet Letter and with a heroine who is an unmistakable incarnation of Hester Prynne, the most famous adulteress in American literature. Sarah Worth (nee Price) boasts a Prynne among her ancestors and, like Hester, a daughter named Pearl. This mother...
Harvard Chief of Police Paul Johnson said his force arrested Nathaniel Oliver, of 40 Mill Street in Boston, for the burglary. He said officers had answered a call from Oscar DelaRosa '90 of I-Entry, who said a stranger had entered his common room. Johnson said police stopped Oliver as he left A-Entry because he fit the description given by DelaRosa...
Still, no one has it easy. For Associate Editor Claudia Wallis, who wrote the main story, long days apart from her ten-month-old son Nathaniel are hard. "There's an enormous tug at your heart come the end of the day," she says, "because there's this little person you want to see, and who wants to see you." One plus about a tug at the heart: it beats a crack of the whip as an incentive to get the job done and get home...