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Such slick maneuvering makes Nonaka the object of dread. "Most of Nonaka's political power owes itself to people's fear of him," says Morita. For a burakumin to inspire fear in political circles is doubly impressive because it is unthinkable in most other spheres. Even though Japan has laws to protect burakumin, they often endure discrimination in school and in the workplace. In the last government survey in 1993, there were 892,000 burakumin counted in 4,442 districts. (Rights groups say the numbers are much higher, perhaps totaling 3 million.) Yet you won't read about the burakumin...
...Wesselmann's Great American Nude No. 54, a painted female form sprawls beside a 3-D radiator, a telephone and a table adorned with ice cream sundaes - a reminder that this was the era of hedonism and sexual revolution, in which the human body also became a consumer object...
Then one scorching morning during the final week of the gang's explorations in August 1999, at a site called Lomekwi, Erus noticed a white object, just an inch or so across, sticking out of a patch of brown mudstone. "I thought maybe it was [the bones of] a monkey," he says. Beckoning the expedition's co-leader, Meave Leakey, wife and daughter-in-law, respectively, of Richard and Louis Leakey and renowned in her own right, he asked her opinion. By nightfall they realized that they had uncovered the partial remains of a humanlike skull...
...that's impossible to mistake. In the face of the thing that triggers fear, phobics experience sweating, racing heart, difficulty breathing and even a fear of imminent death--all accompanied by an overwhelming need to flee. In addition, much of the time that they are away from the feared object or situation is spent dreading the next encounter and developing elaborate strategies intended to avoid it. "Jeanette," 44, a teacher's assistant, is so terrified of cats that she sends her daughter, 21, into an unfamiliar store to scout around and sound a feline all clear before she enters...
...That's the other big question. Daschle - whose real feelings about campaign finance reform have been the object of much speculation - may try to drag this debate out by talking as long as possible on any amendments that come up Thursday, in an effort to push the final vote on this into next week...