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...right-hand standard, including Canada in the 1920s, Sweden in 1967 and Burma in 1970. The U.K. and former colonies such as Australia and India are among the Western world's few remaining holdouts. Several Asian nations, including Japan, use the left as well - a possible legacy of samurai warriors who wore their swords on their left and didn't want to bump anyone - though many places use both right-hand-drive and left-hand-drive cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Don't We All Drive on the Same Side of the Road? | 9/5/2009 | See Source »

Core: 1. Seven required courses that allegedly taught your elders “approaches to knowledge” through samurai and dinosaurs. 2. What won’t exist by the time you graduate (but you might not notice the difference...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dictionary of Harvardisms | 8/24/2009 | See Source »

...rational. But that's not a knock on him. He displays real humanity, and you rarely get that with an athlete of his caliber. And it shows you how physically gifted he is, how good he is with a racket, that he has been so successful even without this samurai mind-set. Nadal is the opposite in some ways. He can blow a two-set lead, lose match points and still be absolutely confident that he's going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tennis Writer L. Jon Wertheim | 6/23/2009 | See Source »

...said. “So I think it’s really great to do something different.” The poet performed six poems that ranged from recently-published pieces, such as “Last Robot Song” and “Samurai Song,” to some that were penned in the 1990’s, like “The Wanted Bone” and “Ginza Samba.” Of Ginza Samba, Pinsky said that he likes the “eclectic nature of the American culture” that...

Author: By Manning Ding, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Former Poet Laureate Reads at the Advocate | 4/19/2009 | See Source »

...samurai had this mentality that you could never really experience life to the fullest unless you lived like you were ready to die at any moment. This field helps solidify the reality that life is finite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cleaning Up Death at War — and at Home | 3/24/2009 | See Source »

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