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...Keene's enchantment with Japanese literature began when he stumbled on Murasaki Shikibu's 11th century classic The Tale of Genji in a Times Square bookshop in 1940. The hero Genji is a sensitive aristocrat who pursues beauty in a world he knows more readily offers sadness. With the news from Europe full of Nazi advances, Keene writes, "I turned to it as a refuge from all I hated in the world around me." The translation was by Arthur Waley, a British polyglot who was also a famed translator of classical Chinese literature. Keene eventually befriended him, and years later...
...gradually reached the sad realization that while the media pretend to be objective, they are not. When I saw the cover story claiming that McCain "may be the GOP's only hope for winning the White House in November," I wanted to throw up my hands and refuse to vote - TIME has picked the Republican contender for us. Janeen Aggon, Lenexa, Kansas...
...other words, the combination of this robot (who I now affectionately call “Lamp”) and a sad undergrad form a functioning system—one that uses robotic elements to extend existing human capabilities...
...organ failure. For days before his lingering death, people milled around the hospital. Television crews jostled for camera space while news anchors played up the melodrama. It was like opera, with tragedy and comedy served up in equal parts: the tragedy of death, which is final and almost always sad, and the comedy of dignitaries past and present and sundry celebrities falling over themselves for a piece of the global spotlight...
...Western world. The real danger to Musharraf was from the Supreme Court, the dismissed Chief Justice and the lawyer community. That danger has now subsided, thanks to the state-of-emergency order. The only remaining danger to Musharraf was Bhutto, and that's why she is no more. The sad part is that the West has never helped us build the institutions needed to sustain democracy. Even now, if Pakistan matters to the world, it is because of the fear that nuclear weapons might fall into the hands of militants. But Pakistan's 170 million people don't matter...