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...several rounds of apologies will be made in the most trivial circumstances, the question of how to admit responsibility for the enormities Japan committed during the war has been a vexing one. Previous Prime Ministers used the term hansei, a fudge word meaning "regret," to express some measure of sorrow. Since his election last year, Murayama, a socialist at the head of an unwieldy coalition dominated by conservative Liberal Democrats, has been determined to show that Japan could at last admit its guilt. Liberal Democrats made sure the final wording of a Diet resolution was bloodless. So Murayama chose...
...front of my computer monitor two weeks ago and listening to the stories of massacre and systematic death in Srebrenica, I was shocked. Exasperated with rage, I sat motionless and listened to the anxious voice of the radio broadcaster while a collage of emotions, ranging from anger to sorrow, flashed through...
...going to dwell on her case for anything other than voyeuristic thrills, we have to forsake the easy, self-distancing explanations like "evil" and acknowledge that the unthinkable is always lurking within the familiar. That the "love" we endlessly celebrate can be a source, sometimes, of endless sorrow...
...adult population wishes to partake in and build Europe for my generation, then surely the time for anti-German propaganda, abundant during the past few weeks, is over. Realistically, our German counterparts cannot enjoy watching Britain relive her glory in the face of so much German suffering, shame and sorrow. Victory in today's Europe is what is important, not the atrocities of the war-torn '40s. BALVEEN AJIMAL, age 16 Guildford, England...
...shock and sorrow were profound last month when Najarian was indicted by a U.S. federal grand jury on 18 felony counts related to his work. Najarian, 67, who has pleaded not guilty, is accused of offenses ranging from embezzlement and income-tax evasion to conspiring to deceive the Food and Drug Administration. "When I heard the news," said Beverly Massegee of Ranger, Texas, who credits Najarian with saving her daughter's life, "I sobbed...