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...opens in the early summer of 1992, with Noriko hanging laundry in the backyard of the Shito family mansion in Koganei, an airy suburban Tokyo neighborhood of delightful tree-lined streets. She is serenely happy and in love with her new husband, Kazuhito, and his tanned arms and adorable round ears. Her new extended family, moreover, loves her. They welcome and dazzle her with praise, and appear in many ways to be typical of large, conservative, close-knit, multigenerational families. They eat dinner and watch TV together. The men are breadwinners (Kazuhito and his father Takeo manage a rice mill...
...perhaps it is wisest now to think of the Democratic primary campaign not as one race but two: the one for the delegates and the other for reconciliation. We will probably know who wins the delegate race before school is out. But it might be late summer before the parleys and the peacemaking that lead to a partnership get under way. A lot can happen in six months. The party's fortunes could dim; the hard feelings could soften. And by August, who knows? There is no telling what a Democratic nominee will need in a running mate-and vice...
...response to incidents like those, the Spanish government passed legislation last summer that imposes stiffer penalties on those who foment racism within sports. But even this new law may not be enough to combat a larger problem. "The real issue is that Spaniards have a habit of not taking this kind of thing seriously," says Esteban Ibarra, president of the Movement against Intolerance, a watchdog group. "There's a banalization, a permissiveness in the face of racist incidents that worries me more than the incidents themselves. As long as society as a whole continues to see these crimes as insignificant...
...Last summer, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani took time out of a GOP debate to defend John McCain: "I happen to be a very big admirer of Senator McCain and I can tell you quite honestly that if I weren't running for President I would be here supporting him." Pundits speculated that the praise was simply a kind word for the man whose campaign had recently exploded, plagued by debt and defections. Privately, McCain advisers wondered if Giuliani was playing nice in order to secure McCain's endorsement after he dropped out of the race...
...student newspaper," Scoops'08 brings together nearly 300 high school and college journalists from across the country. The founders, a Massachusetts high school student and a Yale sophomore, met as interns for Hillary Clinton's campaign, though both argue the site is non-partisan. The newspaper recently incorporated this summer as a not-for-profit entity called Scoop Media, Inc., enjoying pro bono legal assistance from Weil, Gotshal & Manges. It also draws guidance from an advisory board that includes New York Times columnist Frank Rich and Newsweek editor Jonathan Alter, among others...