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...Japan the cremated ashes and bone fragments of Megumi Yokota, a Japanese girl who was kidnapped by the North Koreans in the 1970s and later committed suicide. After running DNA tests, Japanese officials said the remains were not Yokota's, and they blocked North Korean rice shipments in protest. But now they have announced that the remains might be Yokata's. I am deeply shocked that I have heard nothing of that in the Japanese media. From the very beginning, Japan has handled the case of the kidnapped Japanese citizens very clumsily, if not slightly dishonestly. The Japanese government does...
...goal was “to intervene in the day to day operations of government,” then the actions taken by the protesters sorely missed the mark. The recruiters will recruit elsewhere; indeed, there is no shortage of qualified students that believe government intelligence agencies play a crucial role in our national security. Rather, the ugly protest intervened in the day to day operations of fellow students—namely seniors such as myself, who now have to scramble to figure out if it is worth the time to finish the application to the Central Intelligence Agency...
...representatives in Congress protest that increases in federal investments in energy RD&D are not in the cards given current budget realities. But a doubling of those investments could be funded with an increase of two cents per gallon in the federal gasoline tax. As for the private sector’s investments in developing and deploying low- and no-carbon dioxide energy options, these will start to rise significantly only when there is a marketplace incentive for such action, either in the form of a carbon tax or its practical equivalent in the form of economy-wide emissions caps...
People want to forget just how wrong our country was to be in Vietnam and how much courage it took for Fonda to protest the war as she did. The traitors were the people who kept sending U.S. troops there to get killed. Fonda was and always will be a hero. We need people like...
...conscience pinches me again at Fenway. Last time, I made the decision to wear a t-shirt emblazoned with the Yankee logo underneath my collared shirt. A silent, semi-courteous protest...