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...unopposable force, the prime ministerial race was virtually uncontested. After perusing a menu of populist issues, Abe championed the Japanese abductees of North Korea very late in the day. The LDP has chosen to turn a blind eye to so many other problems that nobody could pretend that he and his fellow parliamentarians are not completely calculating in what causes they address. If that were not so, real issues like mercury poisoning, tainted blood supplies, asbestos-related illnesses and hundreds of other skeletons in the LDP cupboard would never have been denied or deferred decade after decade. David John Wood...
...with a blogging critic initially made me think, Great--a critic got a taste of his own medicine [Sept. 25]. But I read on and found out Grossman had experienced the cyberslander that is so prevalent in Internet blogging. Unfortunately, the Internet has allowed anyone with a computer to pretend to be an expert on anything. No matter how uninformed, unintelligent or unrestrained people may be, they can declare themselves authorities and everyone else complete idiots. Since our society loves sensationalism over substance, such ranting gets more attention than legitimate literature. So maybe the bloggers are right after all. Perhaps...
...heard of. Another required her students to ask firm questions to which she would give terse replies, making them so uncomfortable that few would return. Harvard College—in the best formulation I’ve heard—promulgates a Japanese-style education, where the professoriate pretend to teach, the students pretend to learn, and everyone is happy...
...billions of people. Students are willing to give a figure at the JFK Forum an hour of undivided attention, but how many of them spare a couple of minutes to consider illiterate people living on under $2 a day, or even Harvard janitors and dining hall workers? We can pretend that the small elite around Harvard is the whole world, but we’d just be wasting four years of our lives.Once we realize that billions of people exist outside of our little bubble, we have to ask ourselves whether they need another businessman, politician, or lawyer who follows...
...there was grateful and appreciative applause…even some standing ovations. Khatami, who just moments before had in effect condoned capital punishment for the homosexual was given a big symbolic hug from the tolerant, adoring and scholarly crowd from Harvard. Now, just for fun, let’s pretend that ...say...the Rev. Jerry Falwell had been invited to the Harvard campus to address The Tolerant and The Enlightened at Cambridge. Let’s pretend that while speaking at Harvard, Rev. Falwell claimed that the homosexual act is a sin in the eyes of God. Let us also...