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Most potently of all Japanese symbols, these wayside stones reveal how life is a journey wherein the traveler sees that it is the earth itself on which paths cross and from which journeys proceed toward union with otherness. "Dosojin shows us the way," Tadashi said...
...that negotiations have been completed, the Administration can proceed with its plan to provide Greece with an additional $220 million in aid during fiscal 1984, bringing the total to $500 million. The package is subject to congressional approval, but a State Department spokesman noted last week that in the "good atmosphere" that now exists between the two countries, the request should encounter few problems on Capitol Hill...
Discussions between Britain and China were deadlocked last October, principally because Peking demanded that Britain recognize the Chinese claim of sovereignty over Hong Kong before talks could proceed. After that breakdown, the colony's economic indicators plummeted to historic lows. The news that Britain and China would resume their talks has produced a recovery. By last week shares on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange reached a nine-month high, and the slumping Hong Kong dollar had improved. Even so, many of the ethnic Chinese businessmen who dominate the colony's economy were still debating whether to invest...
Before Space Oddity became a hit, Bowie could be seen at various venues throughout Britain, performing a mime inspired by the Chinese invasion of Tibet. (Please, do not rush to the exits. Proceed in an orderly fashion.) After two more years and yet another record company (his sixth), Bowie produced his first important album. Hunky Dory was a hothouse of lush rock that contained such Bowie perennials as Changes, Oh! You Pretty Things and the enigmatic The Bewlay Brothers. That song may have been an oblique allegory of David and Terry Jones, who has spent much of his adult life...
...some frigid day in February, all the officials closet themselves together to study 20 different piles of folders to "make tentative assessments," Fitzsimmons says, adding that in the first week of April, all 12 groups merge. They then proceed to admit all the students they want, pretending there is no limit to how many they can take Finally, on the frantic Saturday before acceptance letters go out, the number has to be pared down to a skeletal 2000 or so This year, 90 students had to be removed from the accepted list on that last day, Fitzsimmons says During these...