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Raised in Baltimore, the son of an auto body-shop owner, Palmisano grew up in a big, solidly middle-class, Catholic family, learning the ways of the world at an early age from his grade-school classmates, some of whose fathers in the rough, corruption-rife port city were being indicted for various crimes...
...Anti-American sentiment is rife in South Korea today, and as Roh, 56, prepares to move into the Blue House next February for a five-year presidential term, a sea change in U.S.-South Korean relations appears to be under way. In his first postvictory public utterances, the President-elect said he wants South Korea to be treated as an equal by the U.S., not as a ward. And despite his lack of foreign-policy experience, he made it clear that his incoming administration will not defer to the U.S. on North Korean diplomacy. "The traditional friendship and alliance between...
...student leader from Amir Kabir University, where protesters had their podium overturned and the sound system turned off during a rally last week, "These militia come inside the universities to create chaos while saying that they are maintaining Islamic values." On the streets outside the campuses, intimidation is also rife. When more than 10,000 people gathered outside Tehran University on Students' Day, they were constantly moved on by police wielding truncheons. Shirazi helped one woman who had been beaten limp out of the fray; she saw another arrested by plainclothes security agents and taken away. "Don't tell...
Some of Orenstein’s other forays, such as the chapter on the wolf’s cross-dressing, fare less well. This can perhaps be blamed on the good old academic microscope. Is the wolf’s donning of the grandmother’s clothes really rife with suggestions of the construction of gender roles—or are modern-day images of a pregnant wolf meant only to be funny? The humor factor is, strangely enough, something Orenstein never discusses. She seems to view all of the latter-day Riding Hoods as cultural...
...take health care: The Japanese government's generous hospital reimbursement criteria practically encourage health-care providers to prolong illness rather than attack it, dragging the average acute care hospital stay in Japan to 24 days, compared with 11 days in Germany and six in America. Financial services are also rife with inefficiencies: Life insurance is largely sold not by financial professionals but by brigades of old ladies, often part-timers working door to door?a model that has not changed since the aftermath of World War II. Indeed, the sectors that account for 90% of Japan's economic output achieve...