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As events took their course in Manila last week, there was an uneasy feeling that the Philippines may have crossed a dangerous new threshold, that perhaps the old, more civilized rules of politics no longer applied. As Governor Homobono Adaza of the province of Misamis Oriental told TIME'S...
The Japanese approach to other nations has grown far more sophisticated recently. Japanese businessmen have led the way. They have traveled the world and studied its languages. They have worked its trade routes with single-minded energy and curiosity, selling their wares, studying everything, plundering the remotest cultures and factories...
ORIENTAL occultism: deeply intertwined, almost incestuous, love affairs; one women's guilt pain and revenge--these are the promising central elements of Masks a novel best described as a Japanese Harlequin Romance Sadly, Fumiko Enchi fails to deliver on this promise.
The foundation for the story is provided by a series of Oriental myths suggesting that certain women are capable of using psychic power to possess and manipulate people around them. Mieko Togano, Enchi would have us believe is just such a woman Mieko eventually comes to fully possess her daughter...
If there's one thing that rivals the preeminence of hamburgers in the Square, it's Chinese best, clearly the best of the possible international fare. Actually, the Oriental cuisine is rather workman like compared to some of the more trendy Boston emporiums But most are relatively cheap and the...