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...canceled, factories shuttered and millions of people were left without power throughout the archipelago on Wednesday, Japanese television stations aired nonstop storm coverage, including riveting shots of gushing waters and daring rescues. In the western port city of Maizuru, 36 elderly tourists and their driver were stranded on the roof of their bus overnight as the overflowing Yura River swirled around them. The passengers later told Japan's Kyodo News service that they broke the windows of the bus with a hammer and then sang the 1961 hit Ue o Muite Arukou (known abroad as the Sukiyaki song) to muster...
...demanding more attention. I wanted to be a good filmmaker and a good father. If you spend too much time on one, you're shorting the other. That fueled this idea of somebody whose mind is elsewhere when it really should be on what's happening under his own roof...
...wasn’t for its river perch, Newell Boathouse might resemble a cathedral. From certain angles, you can envision the building’s red and gray slate exterior cradling a congregation; the softly curved architecture of its roof serving as a shelter for a choir...
...living in Kosovo to participate in this week's elections for the Kosovo Assembly, the provisional local government. But the Trajkovics, like most other Serbs, want no part of it. "Who are we to vote for?" asks Ilija, 53, huddled over a space heater as rain pounds the steel roof overhead. "We trusted the U.N. before and look what it got us. My family has lived in Kosovo for 500 years. But there is no future here." For Kosovo's Serbs and Albanians alike, this week's vote is about more than just who will fix potholed roads. It could...
...talked enough about issues like health care that women care about." The campaign planned an immediate pivot: Kerry's speech last Saturday focused on the middle-class squeeze. "Two incomes barely cover the basics," said Kerry. "The costs of health care, gas, child care and tuition are through the roof. Personal bankruptcies are at an all-time high. And the typical family is making $1,500 less each year." These themes were meant to bring undecided women home to the party in which they have traditionally felt more comfortable. "The bottom line," says Lockhart, "is if that happens...