Word: stoking
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...urgent need to learn Japanese. Growing up in the grimy northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang, his biggest passion was video games. But amping up the onscreen action required Wu to master Japanese commands. Japan's brutal wartime occupation of Shenyang and other parts of China, which continues to stoke Chinese anger today, mattered little in the face of achieving total domination in his favorite video game. Both the computer and linguistic skills have since paid off. Today, Wu, 27, works in Tokyo as a software consultant, part of an influx of highly skilled Chinese labor that is transforming Japan. "Success...
...merely impractical, but almost absurd. The activism of the 1960s was resolute in its antagonism toward institutions and administrators; faculty meetings and procedural resolutions hardly seem the crucible for this specific brand of advocacy. Yet those that were the targets of student activism are now supposed to study and stoke it. This is not only ironic but impractical—a University’s job is to educate and cultivate students, not force them along a particular path with that education. If administrators really want to serve students and engage them politically, they would do best to focus...
...members of the LDS Church is that the faith is too secretive. Romney pushed back against "some who would have a presidential candidate describe and explain his church's distinctive doctrines," arguing that "no candidate should become the spokesman for his faith." But that principled stance may simply stoke concerns that Romney is reticent because he is prohibited from disclosing details about his religious tradition. Romney did address one charge head-on, making clear that he would not be required to answer to church authorities in Salt Lake City. But that is not even the pervasive concern for him that...
...arms deals only stoke fears - and more arms deals. Indonesia's purchases probably will worry Australia, whose naval dominance is critical when Australian forces intervene near its giant neighbor, as in East Timor in 1999. Worse, each step that major countries like Australia, Japan, the U.S. and India take toward an alliance only worries China more, sparking its fears of containment and prodding it to build its own links to Russia, Central Asian nations and Pakistan...
...period detail and psychological nuance, the film's big talking point is three startlingly intense scenes between Leung and Wang. Sex may not sell at the box office (audiences get enough of that in their home entertainment), but it's news at film festivals. And Lee knows how to stoke feverish whispers. When at Venice he was asked if the actors engaged in actual sex, he impishly replied, "Have you seen the film...