Word: portering
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...kenpo, Tae-kwondo, jeet kune do, capoeira and "many of the esoteric brands between," outfought the duo with a cherry-red Gibson and plunged back into Tokyo's pulsating streets. His mission: to figure out what a little bird had to do with the deaths of a night porter in Hokkaido and the country's most beloved rock star...
...hard-boiled mystery, Hokkaido Popsicle (HarperPerennial; 329 pages). Banished to the northern island's remote Hotel Kitty for punching a film director in the face, Chaka is left to analyze the innermost thoughts of his roommate, a "six-pound female Japanese bobcat of distinguished-merit parentage" before an elderly porter abruptly keels over in his room. That same night, Yoshimura ("Yoshi") Fukuzatsu, leader of Japan's most popular rock band, turns up dead in a run-down Tokyo love hotel, providing Adamson with ample opportunity to riff on every Japan clich? in the pop-culture canon...
...courage with which he faced the last years of illness, and the irrepressible energy with which he continued to work, made a very deep impression on all of us,” said Christine M. Korsgaard, Porter professor of philosophy and chair of the philosophy department...
...intelligence lapses continues, lawmakers are clear about one thing: There's a whole lot of information to sift through, and not a whole lot of time to sift. A joint Senate-House panel headed by Bob Graham, chairman of the Senate intelligence committee and House intelligence chair Porter Goss, both of Florida, is meant to provide lawmakers with a better roadmap of the American intelligence community. And while investigators want to know what's well paved, they're more interested in identifying the potholes and dead ends - and figuring out how to fix them before intelligence lapses lead to another...
...newly-elected member of Phi Beta Kappa are, in Adams House: Avik Chatterjee, Elizabeth N. Dewar, Trevor D. Dryer, Matthew P. Feldmann, Martin A. Kurzweil, Nancy Liao, Kalina B. Manova, Robert R. Porter, David Soloveichik, John C. Tsou and Michael S. Weidman...