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...pragmatic Japanese diplomat who participated in the signing of Japan's surrender to the U.S. in 1945; in Kamakura, Japan. Educated at Amherst College and Harvard University, Kase held key posts in Japan's Foreign Ministry before and during World War II. After the war he became a staunch American ally, championing the U.S.-Japan alliance and serving as Japan's first ambassador...
Berg wasn't released until April 6, a day after his parents filed a federal lawsuit against Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, claiming that their son had been transferred to U.S. military custody and was being detained without probable cause. Berg's father Michael, a staunch antiwar activist, now blames the Administration for his son's death while the U.S. military continues to deny it ever had custody of Berg. After he was released, the U.S. consulate offered to arrange for him to fly out of Baghdad, but he refused. Instead, he told friends and family that he planned to drive...
...health care, coming up with the kind of Big Government solution you would expect from Old Democrats. But they saved his presidency by balancing the budget, getting tougher on criminals and ending welfare as we knew it. Today, with the exception of free trade (of which they are staunch advocates), there is almost no argument among Democrats on the principles of the Clintons. In Europe the doctrine came to be called the Third Way and acted as a model for Britain's Tony Blair and Germany's Gerhard Schroder. When George W. Bush ran for the presidency...
...reaches employs the same weak defense, virtually verbatim—“I’m just a professional doing my job.” Creasy, though, is the only one who is a real professional, the kind of hero who can inventively fashion an explosive suppository and staunch severed-finger wounds with an automobile cigarette lighter. (Walken, with the not-quite-provoked manic intensity that has made him a cult figure, enthusiastically tells the film’s lone honest cop that Washington is “an artist of violence who is about to paint his masterpiece?...
Named after the English revolutionary army of Oliver Cromwell, New Model Army are a modern punk band with lots to say about politics while sticking to their staunch working-class ethics. They’ve been putting out albums since 1984—their latest, 2000’s Eight—and count the Clash and the Sex Pistols among their influences. Also performing are Jason Bennett (of Suspect Device) and Pete Depressed. Tickets $10 advance, $12 day of show (Ticketmaster). +18. 10 p.m. The Middle East Upstairs...