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...witness the start of his latest and most defiant protest against the "curse" of British rule. A volunteer band raised its horns and, it was reported, blared a few bars of God Save the King before it apparently dawned on the musicians that a rousing salute to the English sovereign was not the most appropriate send-off. Their fading notes were overtaken by the sound of coconuts being smashed together, a traditional Hindu sign of devotion...
Weisberger isn't the only assistant spilling the beans about fashion biggies. In her novel Diary of a Djinn (Pantheon), Gini Alhadeff, former features editor at Elle, portrays a fashion sovereign who resembles Giorgio Armani, once her boss. In Full Bloom (Dutton), Caroline Hwang, a former editor at Glamour, tells the story of a Korean-American woman climbing the fashion-magazine ladder. And there's another--Bergdorf Blondes (Miramax), by Plum Sykes, a Vogue editor. Leaks at Conde Nast? There's an absolute flood...
...entire North Asian security arrangement: Is Japan spooked enough to start rattling its own sword, one that's been carefully sheathed since its defeat in World War II? The U.S. made Japan demilitarize and democratize, and wrote a new constitution forcing its leadership to "renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation." And yet last December the Japanese destroyer Kirishima set sail for the Indian Ocean to support Washington's war on terror. Tokyo also recently announced that it expects to launch its first spy satellites by the end of March?another sign that Japan is now unashamedly assertive...
...says, the minibus taking him to work in Haifa was strafed by Israeli soldiers; bullets hit him in the legs, seriously wounding him. Said's disillusionment was complete. "We were and are begrudged [the right] to lead a more or less happy life," he says. "Our dream of a sovereign state ... has proved a fantasy." Determined "not to go on like this," Said joined the local branch of Islamic Jihad and volunteered as a shahid, or suicide attacker. "We have nothing - neither vehicles nor tanks, let alone planes, with which we could wage war against the Israeli army...
There is a basic problem with the idea of allowing Indians to create sovereign nations. It is bad public policy to give them the rights of both U.S. citizens and their individual tribes. Creating sovereign nations within the U.S. is a recipe for disaster; it just won't work. We need to get over our guilt from past injustices and strive to treat all people equally, using one set of rules. ROBERT KREITLER Easton, Conn...