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...gives Western audiences a chance to discover how the Japanese see themselves. The atom bomb, Americanization, urbanization and the postwar rebuilding of Japan all figure prominently in Skin of the Nation, which collects some of the 76-year-old master's most famous images from the 1950s to the present. Among them is the haunting Bottle Melted and Deformed by Atomic Bomb Heat, Radiation, and Fire, Nagasaki-a gelatin silver print that darkly conveys the force of the atomic bomb that had devastated the city in 1945. The stark Prostitute, Nagoya conjures up the seedier underbelly of the mid-century...
...Taiwan's present political deadlock is due mainly to the irrational, contrary reactions of the Kuomintang party and the People First Party to every policy put forward by the government. The opposition would rather place party interests above the Taiwan people's interests. President Chen's dismantling of the National Unification Council [a body created to explore eventual reunification with the mainland] should have been regarded as simply the public expression of mainstream Taiwanese opinion, not as a provocative, troublemaking gesture toward China. Justin Kao Taipei...
...unreasonable and seems to ignore the fact that religion is defined by personal beliefs. While in modern times religious groups often see fit to emphasize the similarities rather than the differences between different religions, and most religious groups are quite willing to have nonmembers present for most services and social activities, religions are still defined by different, often inherently contradictory beliefs, and it would be absurd for members of a religious group like the Asian American Christian Fellowship to be led by someone who did not subscribe to Christianity. People often forget that while groupings like race, gender, nationality...
...claimed he didn't know he had a responsibility to oversee Fastow's questionable transactions. Yet prosecutors pointed out at least one of the transactions was discussed at a board of directors' finance meeting in 2000. Skilling, unwilling to give an inch, even tried to deny he was present at such meetings - even when he was listed in the minutes as being there. "Skilling prided himself on being a control freak. Now he's essentially arguing there was a complete breakdown of control," says Wynne. "He can't have it both ways...
...what leakage, if any, is coming out of that building. And I'm afraid there is some coming out. I've called in the FBI, the Department of Justice. It is my aim, and it is my hope, that we will witness a grand jury investigation with reporters present being asked to reveal who is leaking this information. I believe the safety of this nation and the people of this country deserve nothing less...