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...Late in the day we hike up a steep ascent into the quiet shadows of a stand of pines. The name of the path?Leading the Ox Up By Its Nose?exactly describes the gradient. A statue of Kannon with a horse's head commemorates the pack animals whom no amount of nasal persuasion could keep from collapse. That night we stay in Hosokute at a wooden inn, last rebuilt in 1880. Swallows nest inside the doorway, as they have for generations. The floor flexes under our feet as we step gingerly across knotholes and gaps in the boards...
...Modern Japan is rarely far away. At Magome, buses drop tour groups off for a walk down the steep hill dotted with wooden houses, rushing streams and waterwheels. But mostly we amble alone, measuring in eras the distance separating us from our neon destination...
...concern that the U.N.'s demanding top job has taken a toll on her husband but, she says, "in spite of the heavy responsibilities, he seems to be thriving, and I did support him in making himself available for a second term." Annan is painfully aware of the steep price that a life devoted to public service can command. Her uncle, Raoul Wallenberg, the diplomat who saved the lives of thousands of Jews in Nazi-occupied Hungary, disappeared in 1944, the year she was born. Although she never knew him, "the absence of Raoul was always present in my life...
...businesses that put valuations on fine art. He may be his own best customer. He claims to have saved around $28,000 on an André Vincent Becquerel sculpture at last year's Biennale in Paris by using the Artprice.com databank to show that the asking price was too steep...
...knee-jerk market reaction - down, down, down with a clamor - only presaged the peanut-gallery response to what may be seen as one of the least popular Fed moves in a long, long time. Because while the steep-sloped graph of Fed rate cuts this year now shows a distinct leveling off - right smack in the middle of the weakest economic quarter in a decade - nowhere in the 200-word accompanying statement was any hint of why Alan Greenspan chose June 27, 2001 to ease off on the throttle...