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...year. The Showa period of Japanese history, which translates to “period of enlightened peace,” lasted from 1926 to 1989 and witnessed a government-sanctioned boom in urban renewal via tourism, sporting, and even fashion. The exhibition utilizes these three topics in order to shift the works into separate but relatable categories. In the 1930s, though Japan had only opened its ports to Western trade mere decades prior, nationalistic ambition generated the impetus to fashion Tokyo after the capital cities of Europe with a hope to rival them in opulence and global status. The campaign...
...taking the hardest cases, which he added is occurring in his department, where doctors are “not taking on as many high risk cases” to lower mortality statistics. Medical School Professor Sharon-Lise Normand, who led the study, agreed there was a chance doctors would shift away from treating critically ill patients, but said her study controlled for risk factors that would be affected if some hospitals had a sicker body of patients than others. The death rate may reflect post-op care, Normand said, which reflects both the work of individual doctors and the entire...
Though Netanyahu's right-wing Likud Party took only second place in the contest, President Shimon Peres asked Netanyahu to form a government on Friday after a majority of the country's Knesset members backed the Likud leader for the job. Israeli politics has taken a dramatic shift to the right since the war in Gaza, and as a whole, right-wing parties fared better in the election than did the centrist Kadima Party - which finished first by a slim margin - and the crippled leftist Labor Party...
Next week, Clinton's Middle East envoy, George Mitchell, is expected to travel to the region. With a government still unformed by soon-to-be Prime Minister Netanyahu, Mitchell is not going to have a lot of business to transact in Jerusalem. But he is already signaling a shift in the U.S. approach to the divided Palestinian leadership. In a 45-minute telephone conversation with U.S. Jewish leaders Thursday, Mitchell reportedly expressed support for a unity government involving both the impotent Palestinian Authority and Hamas. Though the U.S. will adhere to the four conditions for talking to Hamas that Clinton...
...Commander in Chief when an answer is needed. Though Gibbs' aides speak of him affectionately as a "silent killer" whose mood can turn from warm to ice-cold when his boss's motives are challenged, they add that he has been consciously trying to shift into a more press-friendly role at the White House, a move symbolized by his often open office door. "He's always been good with the stick," Axelrod jokes about Gibbs. "He has also learned over time to use the carrot...