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...Caricaturists, whose pen is meaner than the sword, are supposed to believe that cruelty is an inalienable right. Hirschfeld didn't hold to that creed. Or maybe his pen and his personality were too ebullient to be bilious; the Nast or nasty drawing, he seemed to think, didn't demean the subject so much as the artist. He had an inability to find the jugular in a entertainment figure. He did go for the jungular, exaggerating facial features and specializing in a kind of reverse anthropomorphism: he turned men into beasts. To Mickey Rooney, Bert Lahr and Zero Mostel...
...Japan shooting itself in the foot isn't novel these days. But Koizumi's visit to the shrine raised a bigger question at a time when North Korea's nuclear gambit has threatened the entire North Asian security arrangement: Is Japan spooked enough to start rattling its own sword, one that's been carefully sheathed since its defeat in World War II? The U.S. made Japan demilitarize and democratize, and wrote a new constitution forcing its leadership to "renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation." And yet last December the Japanese destroyer Kirishima set sail for the Indian...
...friend took a katana [sword] and pretended to stab himself. Then he ran out of the room...
Rock songs lamenting frustrations with place and identity and the double-edged sword of love have never been this danceable and uplifting. Make Up the Breakdown is the sort of album one can listen through in its entirety without ever skipping a song. Have no fear that the ride ends after a brisk 32 minutes—simply press “play” once again. —Sarah L. Solorzano
Never has there been a better moment for the plowshare to supersede the sword. If George Bush and Tony Blair would stay their hand against Iraq, that would give the people in the region the opportunity to solve the problem of Saddam and al-Qaeda. A single shot need not be fired. MAURICE CLYDE Silves, Portugal...