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...Japanese have finally got it: 12 years isn't a mere recession, and the rising sun doesn't inevitably follow the dark of night. "Everybody's afraid because we know we are getting poorer, day by day," says Yoshiharu Nakashima, who ought to know: he's a pawn-shop owner in Tokyo's Ueno district. When U.S. President George W. Bush visits next week, he'll undoubtedly spend some backroom time telling the Japanese to get their acts together. His host will be Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, who achieved rock-star popularity by promising to do just that, but whose...
...interview about their latest release. But while this album may not rank with De La Soul’s classic debut, Bionix is a hip-hop album of surprisingly high consistency: There is perhaps only one song on the whole album that could not be released as a single, Pawn Star, and only because it has the sounds of girls groaning passionately throughout the chorus...
...overacting side of the spectrum sit Michael Badalucco as Doris’ portly dolt of a brother and Polito as the comical entrepreneur. Thornton, on the other hand, is so dry that he makes Clint Eastwood looks like Richard Simmons, and McDormand is positively wasted as a dull pawn of Ed’s and the Coens’ plottings. Gandolfini, never better than when flaunting a corker of a malicious smile, lingers securely in the middle of the scale. Tony Shalhoub makes the film’s best showing as an improbably shrewd big-city lawyer with the terrific...
Hastert has come a long way since January 1999, when his colleagues turned to the former high school economics teacher and wrestling coach after Newt Gingrich was dumped and his designated successor Bob Livingston suddenly quit. Hastert was widely dismissed as a pawn of more conservative and less presentable back-room operators like majority leader Dick Armey and majority whip Tom DeLay during the last two years of the Clinton Administration. Democrats called him the accidental Speaker, who they predicted would return to the back benches when they retook the House in the 2000 elections. "It was overwhelming," Hastert says...
...Asia. But ever since the Americans turned the island into a military fortress after World War II, it has been an uneasy alliance. The Okinawans, already estranged from the Japanese mainlanders who colonized their island and then brutalized them during the war, have long resented being used as a pawn in a military defense chess game. Crimes like last week's alleged rape only inflame the passions. In 1995, after three servicemen raped a 12-year-old girl, 85,000 Okinawans staged a peaceful but angry protest. Over the years, a series of outrageous sex crimes have made...