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...deeper into the abyss, policymakers and economists in Asia are reflecting on their own past financial meltdowns in search of lessons that could help the U.S. and Europe. As ministers for the G-7 group of industrialized nations meet in Washington today to discuss the crisis, Japanese officials in particular are expected to offer up guidance to their Western colleagues. "Japan can be of help by letting them know our experience of struggling" with economic turmoil, Japan's Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa told reporters Tuesday...
...start. Surely the next day we would wake up with the scoreboard still the same. Our life spans would still be shorter, our prison rolls longer and our net worths lower than the average American's. But the psychic impact could be enormous. Young blacks, like me, in particular lived with the burden of having dropped the ball that the civil rights generation advanced. Obama is our particular vindication, in that he can't win without the votes of young blacks and in his specific mannerisms. He is the start of our contribution to the fight...
...very act of tying an author or a body of literature to a particular nation has become problematic in an age of migration. The intranational, intracontinental, and intercontinental movements of people have increased the number of “global citizens” and diluted many claims to a pure, national identity. Le Clézio is hardly an unambiguous “Frenchman”—although born in Nice and of French descent, he moved to Nigeria when he was eight, punctuated his life with long stays in Mexico and South America, married a Moroccan woman...
...privately question” a female character, the audience reacted with knowing chuckles and a mutual “Yeah!” Each moviegoer was actively involved in everyone else’s viewing, an element I found to be as essential as the movie itself during this particular cinematic experience. Sure, audiences sometimes laugh or cry, but the palpable excitement during the movie was something altogether different. Watching “Les Demons” may not have provided me with a shining example of time-honored film artistry, but my experience was nonetheless valuable...
Sullivan said that the Supreme Court must decide exactly what constitutes “consent” in this particular case...