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...with Tigermania everywhere, the team hopes to teach life a thing or two. The Tigers are being buoyed by a Japanese pitcher who's returned from the New York Yankees. Their manager is one of those Japanese of Korean descent otherwise pushed away from the headlines. Their distinctive rocket-shaped balloons have been exported as far away as Texas. Local politicians disport themselves on TV eating traditional lunches with the dishes served in the shape of the Tigers' logo...
...Unification, a South Korean think tank devoted to bringing about the reunification of the two Koreas. In book-crammed offices on the outskirts of Seoul, 35 political scientists, economists and sociologists draft strategies by studying other cases of unification (such as Germany and Vietnam) and try to divine what shape the Koreas might take in a post-Kim world. The result of the work may come as a surprise. "We don't want to achieve unification in a quick period of time," says Park, primarily because "the economic costs of unification are huge...
...guide-service clients. "They want to experience as much as they can before they check out," says Lou Whittaker, 74, a guide on Washington's Mount Rainier for a half-century. But couch potatoes beware. To succeed at the summit, you must be cautious, alert and in phenomenal shape; otherwise, you put yourself at high risk (see sidebar...
...tears. My pragmatic, journalist side is upset and angered by the futility of some of these pilgrimages, particularly those of the parents who have brought mentally disabled children here. Holy water doesn’t stop cancer, chemotherapy does; and a three-dollar bar of soap in the shape of the Virgin Mary won’t do much in the way of healing birth defects. But my emotional, aesthetic side is completely struck by the wonder of the scene: by the music echoing from the giant underground basilica, by the way people’s hands lovingly stroke...
...answer is, all of the above. Dean is constantly attacking "ideologues in both parties," which allows him to choose what he thinks is the best of all worlds.Take health care. Again, Dean learned from Clinton. In the early '90s, Dean was arguably the Governor most involved in helping shape the huge, doomed Clinton health-care plan. During the 1994 State of the Union address, according to the Burlington Free Press, Dean was sitting just behind Hillary Rodham Clinton, the plan's major architect. Dean claims he doesn't remember the event and even at the time thought the plan...