Word: peninsulas
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Unfortunately, there is nowhere else quite so convenient. Okinawa suits American purposes because of its proximity to the Korean peninsula and the rest of Asia. From the standpoint of the government in Tokyo, keeping so many American troops in Okinawa makes sense; that way they are segregated from the Japanese mainland. Koizumi has said, however, that he wants to "lighten the burden" on the island. Japanese have paid rapt attention to the debate on the U.S. bombing range in Vieques, Puerto Rico, and to Washington's decision to close the range in 2003. But the chances of such a dispensation...
Located on 26 acres of the Coronado peninsula in San Diego Bay, the hotel has been the setting for more than 30 movies and television shows. It was home away from home to 10 Presidents and countless celebrities. But when its last private owner died in the early '90s, it began to slip into obscurity...
...charges of inaccuracy. China and South Korea have both demanded extensive changes to a textbook, approved by Tokyo this year, which Beijing says "advocates imperialism and whitewashes Japan's history of aggression." Seoul objected to the book's justification of Japan's 1910-45 occupation of the Korean peninsula and demanded that 35 passages be revised. Tokyo argues that the book, to be prescribed next year for children aged 13 to 15, was approved by an education commission...
...Ironically enough, after his first year at Harvard, Rudenstine was praised for speaking out more than Bok. When Peninsula, a conservative campus magazine, printed an issue condemning homosexuality, sparking campus-wide debate, Rudenstine responded by publicly showing his support for gay Harvard students and faculty...
Fisher brokered a settlement between Egypt and Israel over the Sinai Peninsula, conducted negotiations workshops with both the African National Congress and President deKlerk's cabinet in South Africa, helped deal with the American hostage situation in Iran in 1980, and ended a decades long conflict over a disputed border between Peru and Ecuador...