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...Harvard football captain and Ivy Player of the Year has accepted invitations to play in two senior bowls in the month of January, Crimson Sports Information released this week. Fitzpatrick will play in the East West Shrine Game in San Francisco on Jan. 15 and the Hula Bowl in Kihei, Hawaii, on Jan. 22. Both games will be nationally televised on ESPN and ESPN2, respectively...
...quarterbacks attending the Shrine game, however, Fitzpatrick is the only one from Division I-AA. In that bowl, he will split time with Stefan Lefors of Louisville and Kyle Orton of Purdue. The West roster boasts Hawaii’s Timmy Chang and Oregon State’s Derek Anderson...
...also outraged by constant denials by the Japanese government on topics ranging from the biological-weapons program to comfort women, and I am disgusted by the deliberate omission or glorification of the war in Japanese history books. Therefore, every visit by Japanese leaders to the Yasukuni Shrine adds insult to the injuries of victims of Japanese militarism. The animosities would have been laid to rest had General Douglas MacArthur applied the denazification process used in Germany to Japan in 1945. We do not want the blood of the Japanese people. We only want them to recognize the blood of millions...
...report believe that Japan has apologized enough to other countries for the suffering it inflicted during World War II. As a Japanese art student said, "The war is over. It has nothing to do with me." And yet, for the Japanese Prime Minister to regularly visit Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, where many notorious war criminals are honored, is equivalent to a German Chancellor's paying homage at a memorial to Adolf Hitler. For the Japanese and the Chinese to respect one another is not to water down history. Henry Kwok Hong Kong...
...temporary grave at the battered West Bank compound where he spent his final years, imprisoned by Israeli tanks. The closest he came to the Jerusalem holy site that Muslims call the Noble Sanctuary and Jews call the Temple Mount was the handfuls of dirt brought from the shrine to cover his casket. Palestinians attached handles to his marble tomb, to be ready for the day they can move it to the capital of their dreams...