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Ninjas don't wear sweatshirts. Yoshiyuki Ogata, a Tokyo designer whose street fashion is stocked in upscale L.A. and London boutiques, was living in Seattle in the 1990s when he discovered a peculiar phenomenon. His friends overseas, Americans as well as other nationalities, were proud of their roots, while his Japanese mates tended to denigrate their own culture and idolize anything foreign. Ogata couldn't understand the impulse. Yes, he had traveled the world and had majored in international business. But Ogata had a black belt in karate. He loved the exquisite craftsmanship of Japan's artisans. So when...
...York and northern Aboriginal people," he recalls, "and the eastern island language is connected to the coastal villages of Papua New Guinea. Adding to that, our language is very strongly connected to all the Pacific islands. We're part of that network. And that's why I'm really proud to be part of events like this...
...This month, Franken stopped arguing about how un-Hollywood his lifestyle is (he's been married to the same Minnesota woman for 32 years, and she made extra sandwiches when she heard I was spending the day with him) and instead ran ads about how he's not proud of all the jokes he's told. Amy Klobuchar, the Democratic Senator from Plymouth, Minn., applauded Franken for that. "Minnesotans, if they hear people saying things they think are inappropriate, they want an explanation. I think it's good he confronted it and talked about it." Franken has hired all kinds...
...pommel horse by Kai Wen Tan cost the U.S. team a possible second-place finish. The team went home with a bronze, and the defending champion Japanese claimed the No. 2 spot. "I feel ashamed that we didn't win the gold," said Koki Sakamoto. "But I am proud that we tried to the very end and never gave...
...intentions were never secret. I can attest to that firsthand. During Tajikistan's civil war in the early 1990s, I was assigned to the embassy in Dushanbe and was evacuated out of the country by Russia's 201st Motorized Rifle Division. The Russian officers who commanded the unit were proud that the Red Army had held together through the breakup of the Soviet Union and was called to come to the aid of a superpower like the United States. They had no inkling that Washington would ignore the facts on the ground and deny Russia's true influence...