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Living up to the standards set by Nakasone will be difficult. Newspaper commentators have already compared Takeshita unfavorably with the Prime Minister. The five-year reign of the dynamic, much traveled Nakasone put Japan on the world map -- and the rest of the world on Japan's map. Takeshita's slight international experience is a painful shortcoming. His penchant for the slow process of consensus may also be a dangerous anachronism, the product of an age that Tokyo seems to have outgrown. Says Seizaburo Sato, a political scientist at the University of Tokyo: "If Takeshita had been elected...
...true value for Arias will be measured in the days before and after the Nov. 5 cease-fire. "The prize is a catalyst," he says. "It's a stimulus so that we don't lapse in our effort." No one, least of all Arias, believes eternal peace will reign three weeks from now; the Costa Rican President points out that the cease-fire "initiates a process, it doesn't end it." Yet most Central Americans agree that more progress has been made toward peace in the past two months than in the past six years and that Arias deserves...
...theatrical experience he has fashioned is part religious pageant, part sermon, part military panoply and part celebration of the reverberant power of language -- of vows, of curses, of omens. Above all it glories in the eternal reign of the storyteller, whose chronicles outlast the might of the captains and kings and, yes, even gods who figure in his tales. At one point a deity confronts the poet who is purportedly narrating the epic and demands, "Vyasa, which of us has invented the other?" That is art at its most self- aggrandizing. Yet how indeed does man come to comprehend anything...
...elections that week. Journalism, as it has been said, is just the first draft of history. Sometimes, though, historians have similar troubles with the second draft. Writing his authoritative chronicle of Rome in about A.D. 100, Tacitus made only a passing reference to the Christians, minor troublemakers during the reign of Nero...
Never before during his reign has John Paul heard a more candid, widely publicized presentation on church discord from a group of bishops. And never before had U.S. Catholics -- priests and laity alike -- been told so plainly by the Pontiff that they should not consider themselves good Catholics unless they accept all of the church's teachings. "Dissent from church doctrine remains what it is: dissent," he declared. "As such it may not be proposed or received on an equal footing with the church's authentic teaching...