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...much for the miraculous Japan, with its uncanny, clockwork economy and culture. Ichiro Ozawa now believes it's time to close the postwar chapter. He argues that Japan's highly regulated society inhibits the cultivation of talent at home and friendship abroad that Japan needs if it is to thrive in the future. He calls for a "third opening," a change in Japan as momentous as the Meiji revolution, which opened the nation to the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FAILED MIRACLE | 4/22/1996 | See Source »

This racist message is evidence that hateful attitudes can still thrive here. Although Harvard is often characterized as America's premier institution of higher learning, it is not immune from the anti-intellectual forces of prejudice and racism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racist Graffiti Has No Place Here | 4/4/1996 | See Source »

...right to volunteer and accomplish much more than your vote possibly could. A Republican administration might well eliminate HOPE 6. Will that negate the will of the hundreds of caring Boston and Cambridge residents (and, yes, lowly Harvard students) who take it upon themselves to help Mission Hill thrive as a community and to help its residents break out of the cycle of poverty and unemployment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Volunteering Beats Voting | 4/4/1996 | See Source »

...WHEN MAO ZEDONG'S COMMUnist forces pushed Chiang Kai-shek's regime off mainland China and drove it to Taiwan, few expected the resource-poor province to thrive. Nevertheless, in its new home, the Republic of China has become one of East Asia's "economic miracles," with a per capita GNP today of $12,500. Even that transformation, though, is less startling than Taiwan's political revolution, culminating last Saturday in the presidential election. Voters ignored missile rattling from the mainland and gave current President Lee Teng-hui a strong mandate. He won 54% of the vote, more than twice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAIWAN'S SECOND MIRACLE | 4/1/1996 | See Source »

...Milken is realistic. He knows that in men who have undergone hormone therapy, the cancer cells eventually learn to thrive and multiply without testosterone, usually within a year or two. While Milken has reacted unusually well to the treatment, he is all too aware that he has not been cured. "We just don't know how long before it comes back," he says. "It's not that it's gone. It's how long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MAN'S CANCER | 4/1/1996 | See Source »

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