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"Proportional representation also translates into perpetual re-election," Winters says. "Unless somebody actually steps down, it's very hard for other people to make a show of it."
The Japanese government did not immediately name a perpetrator. But within days, under another pretext, it responded with its morning raid on 25 branches of a heretofore obscure sect called Aum Shinrikyo, which translates as Aum Supreme Truth. The sect, which started as a yoga school, focuses on the apocalypse...
For some, the sense of dread extends beyond the fear of more sarin, reaching deep into the nature of Aum and the sort of person Aum attracts, whether the cult was behind the killings or not. There is a word for a certain kind of young person in Japan: otaku...
There is, however, a serious quagmire. The youth of America is substantially less mature than its companions around the world. At 18, a U.S. citizen is man or woman enough to vote, fight in the military, drive a car, buy cigarettes and pornography and be financially independent. Yet is he...
Chan-whose Chinese screen name, Sing Lung, translates as "becoming the dragon"-is so fearless as to seem, by mere human standards, senseless. In Police Story he hitches a ride on a speeding bus by running up from behind, hooking an umbrella handle onto a window ledge and hanging on...