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It was all very un-Japanese, the climax of an election week that had tipped the natural order of things upside down. The arrogant old conservatives of the L.D.P. lost the majority they had used to run the government unchallenged -- and almost unsupervised -- for 38 years. At the same time...
When President Clinton visited Tokyo last month, he repeatedly implied that "change" could bring Japan smoother trading relations with the world, a more consumer-oriented society, a government concerned with its citizens' quality of life. U.S. officials have been pushing Japan to cut taxes and spend more government money to...
"Primary nursing" is another patient care-oriented emphasis at Beth Israel. Each patient is assigned a registered nurse who has primary responsibility for that patient's nursing care. The hospital trains nursing students from 12 different schools, including Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania.
That snatch of conversation from Black Bible Chronicles is just one of many new attempts to make the Bible get with the program. One-third of American adults today have trouble decoding the King James Version, and 70% of teenagers in a typical week do not even bother to try...
In 1986, Gallardo's girlfriend discovered him engaged in oral sex with her 10-year-old daughter; but she declined to file charges, and the case was dropped. Then in 1990, deputies responding to another complaint at the house (owned by Gallardo's father) found what Snohomish County sheriff's...