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...small point, perhaps, but one with symbolic dimensions. It illustrates how the two giants focus differently on their shared history. Americans remember Dec. 7 as a day of infamy. Japanese, when they think of Dec. 8 at all, tend to dismiss the date as mizu ni nagasu: water under the bridge. Many Americans see Japan's economic juggernaut as a continuation of war by other means. Japanese protest that they are tagged as rapacious when they are merely successful. When Wall Street recalls that Tokyo time is 14 hours ahead, it wonders if Japan has cornered the future. Some Japanese...
Pearl Harbor? To many, that's mizu ni nagasu -- water under the bridge...
...village of Kafr Ni'ma lies in the hills west of Ramallah, a high village with an ancient terracing of stones. The people there grow figs, olives, almonds, grapes, plums. On a hill opposite, across the valley, one sees the bright white cubes and rectangles of a Jewish settlement -- a bedroom community for people who work in Jerusalem. The settlements on the West Bank are usually erected on the high ground for defense, and sit upon the landscape like moon stations...
...level, and now teenagers from the Soviet Union, East Germany and especially China threatened to beat him. At 28, Louganis is a superbly fit adult male; his imitators tend to look like underclassmen at a military school. But after nine dives he was 3 points behind Xiong Ni of China, young-looking even for his 14 years. Xiong's tenth and last dive was near perfect. Louganis, following him, somehow found the grace and courage to be a shade better in a harder dive, a flashing reverse 3 1/2 somersault. The win gave him both diving golds, to go with...
...pool, of course, can replace the real thing on the West Coast. As the Beach Boys sang in their 1963 hit Surfin' U.S.A., "If everybody had an ocean/ Across the U.S.A./ Then everybody'd be surfin'/ Like Ca-li-for-ni-a." Beach Boy Bruce Johnston, 44, whose group celebrates its silver anniversary this year, bought a house near California's Rincon Beach, partly to be near one of his favorite spots. "Surfing is probably my only feeling of freedom," says Johnston. "My mortgage payments are not in the water with me." John Milius, 42, co-writer of Apocalypse...