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...Lost Dog is an uncompromisingly literary (and literate) book: ferociously intelligent, highbrow, allusive and unflinching in its probing of the question, "What relation does the individual have to history?" It is equally intransigent with its oblique, sometimes scathing answers. A book such as this, so preternaturally attuned to listening to "the patient rage of history," is a marvelously layered palimpsest...
...Nearly half a century later, the question still poses itself. Consider: Japan is by any standards that count - public safety, widely shared prosperity, quality of infrastructure, health and education indicators, family stability - a remarkably well-governed society. Its best companies set global standards for innovation and efficiency. Its artists have a style and grace that has won them admirers the world over. And yet when it comes to the headline measure by which a nation is often gauged - the effectiveness of its political system - this whale is reduced to a minnow. Witness the resignation of Yasuo Fukuda after a lackluster...
...Japan serenely sails. It makes you wonder if most of us have still not figured out the question of 1962, or if the answer to it is so radical that we miss it. Could it be that an old society is leading us into a postmodern age, one where the world of politics, something that we have assumed for 200 years was the wellspring of national success or failure, is somehow just not that important...
Then, there's the question about his business as water overwhelms what remains of the land. "As far as shrimping goes," DeJean continues, "there's going to be more shrimp. But you'll have a lot of garbage to deal with. You'll have trees, like in the nets." His 12-hour shifts will be reduced to six or eight mainly "because you spend so much time getting trees out the nets." Given the shortage of fuel, when does he expect to return to work? "You're talking a couple weeks without power, before we can do anything...
...question Chavez supporters ask is why Fernandez would even need his cash when she held a more than 20-point lead in voter polls leading up to last October's election, which she won handily. When the campaign contribution allegation was made shortly after her inauguration, she took it as a Yanqui affront to her own government and angrily called the case a "garbage operation." The Casa Rosada, the Argentine presidential palace, insists instead that the U.S. should extradite Antonini to Argentina...