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Such sentiment has not gone away. In the 1980s, there was a rash of Japan-bashing whose rhetoric affected not only Japanese Americans but other Asian Americans who were grouped with them. The 1997 campaign-finance scandal involving Chinese American John Huang also demonstrated that the fear of "yellow peril" persists. I don't think the scandal would have been half as pernicious if the donor had been, say, a German American...
...woman are about the same as those of being snatched by a low-flying eagle. And, for that matter, a young child's chances of being abducted period are not much higher (especially if you eliminate cases involving custody disputes and other family feuds). Yet to stave off this peril, we're giving kids coloring books that have the psychological impact of the 1950s movie Invaders from Mars, in which the child protagonist learns that anyone--next-door neighbors, even the police--may be a robotic Martian convert...
...story sticks because it is the story of every year--courage, skill, hubris and the best-laid plans brought low by nature, which does not care. The amazing thing is that we care; that we continue to be concerned with those in peril on the sea; that we continue to be interested in one another as a story and keep at the story of ourselves until, maybe, one day we'll get it right. The story of the year? It might have been the moment we looked up with that sweet old eagerness and hope and told each other...
DIED. LEONARD RIESER, 76, physicist; in Lebanon, N.H. Rieser worked on the Manhattan Project and recently retired as chairman of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, where he was keeper of the Doomsday Clock, moving the minute hand to reflect the threat of nuclear peril...
...history of war movies--his astonishing re-creation of the Omaha Beach landing--he forces us to wonder if any cause can justify such carnage. It is a measure of his growth as a questioning humanist that the rest of his tense, brilliantly wrought epic puts men in mortal peril as they attempt to rescue a soldier whose life is no more valuable than theirs, then shows us how honor can be wrested from absurdity by common decency and modest dutifulness...