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...Tokyo, where fashion is taken as seriously as politics, Junya Watanabe's collections spark more scrutiny than the latest governmental bailout plan. Maybe it's because while the parliament mires the country in the same old, same old, Watanabe and the avant-garde designer pack he runs with--Yohji Yamamoto, Issey Miyake and Rei Kawakubo--make Japan, and design aficionados worldwide, try to envision what is to come...
...free throws to give Harvard a late lead against Princeton. Nor was there any Palestra-induced hesitation in Jason Norman when—for a two-minute stretch, anyway—he became a profile of cornrowed fury, throwing down breakaway dunks on consecutive possessions to spark a first-half rally that kept the game close...
While Moore provided the spark for Friday night’s blowout, the familiar tandem of Cserny and forward junior Hana Peljto supplied the firepower. Peljto corralled seven boards to go along with her game-high eighteen points, despite shooting under 40 percent from the field. “Hana’s shot was a little off the mark at times,” Delaney-Smith said...
...spark was lit when several Cambodian newspapers misquoted Thai TV soap star Suvanant Kongying as saying Cambodians were "like worms" and that she would only visit the country if Angkor Wat were returned to Thailand. Built between the 9th and 13th centuries, Angkor Wat is the heart of Khmer culture and identity?and a persistent snarling point between the two countries. That the temple complex has come under Thai control three times since the 15th century, most recently during World War II, riles Cambodians. To this day, they claim, Thais still covet the temple. Thais, for their part, take umbrage...
Although their message did not immediately spark a raging debate, it also did not fall on deaf ears. It will hopefully not only encourage other masters who have been thinking of broaching such important topics with their students, but also act as a wake up call for those masters who have been disengaged from the intellectual debates in their Houses...