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They play racquetball together, study together, and spend hours engaged in conversation together...
...laugh, we will cry. I’m talking about, of course, the agony and ecstasy of selecting our rooms for next year. Who can blame us for caring so passionately about what suite we live in next year? It’s the place, after all, where we spend most of our time. It’s where we sleep, where we eat (thank you, Half Shell Delivery), and where we go to class (thank you, video lectures online...
...editor, you spend long, hard hours banging away until you solve [the film],” Schoonmaker said...
...there been a great push to increase defense spending. Confronted with a massive budget deficit and increasing demands for benefits from an aging society, Tokyo has held fast to an unofficial rule of diverting no more than 1% of gdp to defense-the U.S. spends about 4%-and this year spending will actually fall 0.2% to $40 billion, the fifth straight year of decline. Remilitarization simply isn't in the budget. "If the Cubans tested a nuclear bomb, you can bet American politicians would have to increase the defense budget," says Robert Dujarric, a security analyst with Temple University...
...American jets, ships and nukes. Tokyo bears some of the financial burden, and Washington has begun to make noises about Japan picking up more of the tab-U.S. Ambassador Thomas Schieffer told a group of reporters last month "we would hope they would be able to spend more." But this is unlikely. Even as staunch a conservative as Hisahiko Okazaki, a former diplomat and an Abe foreign-policy adviser, says that Japan should focus on cementing the U.S. alliance, not on pursuing its own military destiny...