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...pacifist economic power. Now, China's rise seems to have changed the entire nation's thinking about how to conduct its affairs abroad. Polls show that a majority of Japanese are in favor of revising the constitution and nearly half want to abandon the provision against collective defense. Ross Schaap, Japan analyst at the Eurasia Group consultancy in New York, says changes to the electoral process in 1994 that required candidates to appeal more directly to individual voters than group constituencies such as unions and business groups have given the edge to more populist politicians. "Politicians now have to appeal...
DIED. DICK SCHAAP, 67, witty, award-winning sports journalist and host of TV and radio shows, including ESPN's The Sports Reporters; after hip-replacement surgery; in New York City. In his five-decade career, Schaap befriended countless celebrities, covered sports and sometimes culture for Newsweek, nbc, abc and espn, and won six Emmys. Among his 33 books was the 1968 best seller Instant Replay, written with Green Bay Packer Jerry Kramer...
Inevitably, it finally overcame her. This set offers not only a living piece of her life in music but a kind of oral history of the last years as well. Producer Phil Schaap has included 1 1/2 hours of newly discovered material, rehearsals in 1955 where Lady Day runs through some tunes, runs over a little history ("Jesus Christ. Man broke my heart and I needed the loot"), runs down some collaborators ("The dirty bum," she says of her producer, Norman Granz. "I hate that son of a bitch") and in general gives a strong account of the spirit that...
Lawyer Bill Schaap of the Center for International Rights, the second of two featured speakers, described his pending law suit on behalf of seven Nicaraguans injured in anti-Sandinista border raids...
...would like to reassure Reader James Schaap, who is "hard-pressed to find a public school where Ralph Waldo Emerson hasn't been replaced by tales of streetwise punks" [May 31]. Many of my students are streetwise, but also enjoy Emerson. His philosophy is applicable to the young person today who understands that with our economic turmoil "no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given...