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...just beauty, but the beauty of calm understatement; not just perfection, but perfection emphasized by some slight flaw. It means both flair and simplicity. Yasumo Kuroko, Sony's chief product designer, offers a definition: "It's the just so of the swerve of a pagoda or the sword of a samurai...
...Lebanon, the sword of violence always seems to be unsheathed and ready to strike. Two Israeli soldiers were killed last week when a bomb exploded as their truck rumbled along a highway in southern Lebanon. In downtown Beirut, Lebanese army soldiers battled Shi'ite Muslim militiamen after government police tried to evict Shi'ite squatters from an abandoned school. Seven people died, including two soldiers. In the Chouf Mountains southeast of Beirut, Druze villagers clashed with a Lebanese army patrol. The toll: two dead and 18 wounded. The last incident carried ominous implications since the Lebanese army...
Senator Robert Packwood, Commerce Committee chairman and the bill's chief Senate sponsor, angered by the industry's aggressive lobbying efforts, recently warned its officials: "You're asking to die by this sword if you want to live by this sword. Congress will rise up in wrath against you." The bill is now given a better than even chance of passage...
...emerging as a convenient back door for refugees from the Caribbean, Europe and the Middle East, most of whom can enter Canada without a visa; the flow there is up by 30% to 40%. INS Border Patrols are swamped. Says veteran Texas Officer Jack Richardson: "It's like sword fighting with Zorro with a short knife...
...dancing. Anti-Semitic officers high in the French military fabricated evidence that Captain Alfred Dreyfus, an Alsatian Jew, passed sensitive information to the Germans and Italians. Convicted of treason in 1894 and sentenced to Devil's Island for life, Dreyfus had to endure a ceremony in which his sword was broken and the insignia stripped from his uniform. One shocked witness was Theodor Herzl, a Jewish journalist covering the trial for a Vienna newspaper. Herzl embarked on a train of thought that would result in the writing of Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State), a book that...