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And yet some of the old attitudes - the prickly sensitivity, the lurking sense of humiliation and the obsession with uniqueness - never entirely disappeared. You notice it in the common ambivalence toward "foreign understanding." Japanese often complain of not being understood by the outside world. But foreigners who appear to understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Japan Cares What You Think | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

Also featured at the film festival will be the Lesbian Short Film Program (May 4), a compilation of short films touching on a wide variety of subjects and lengths. Above the Dust Level, for example, is a 12-minute Australian film by Carla Drago about stolen menâ?...

Author: By Sarah N. Kunz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Boys Who Like Boys Who Like Girls Who Like... | 4/27/2001 | See Source »

Harvard has taught me that this obsession with youth should be able to be explained quite simply using the principles of the free market (thank you, Ec 10). On some level, this makes sense. Teenagers spend more leisure dollars in the United States than any other age category, making youth?...

Author: By Alixandra E. Smith, | Title: End of the Road | 4/23/2001 | See Source »

No one, with the possible exception of the President, will be more responsible for the success or failure of Bush's presidency. Which is fine by Rove. This is, after all, the culmination of a life's obsession. It began even before the mid-'70s, when Rove, then a college...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Busiest Man in the White House | 4/22/2001 | See Source »

In the past week alone, while working on Bush's environmental makeover, Rove plotted strategy at meetings on how to proceed with health-care reform, stem-cell research and the tax-cut debate. He worked on recruiting candidates for office in two states and orchestrated the withdrawal of a candidate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Busiest Man in the White House | 4/22/2001 | See Source »

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