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This has been a tough summer for Japanese baseball. Stadiums have been relatively empty, and televised games have attracted far fewer fans, many of whom prefer to tune in each morning to watch live broadcasts of the Seattle Mariners, featuring Japanese stars Ichiro Suzuki and Kazuhiro Sasaki. In the U.S., Japanese players are the new thing, the "It" boys of baseball. Back home, the national sport has spent summer in the dumps...
...about his hip, wavy hairstyle. A record label released a CD of his favorite Elvis hits, with Koizumi posing next to a life-size statue of "the King" on the cover. (They share the same birthday.) There's a mint-flavored chewing gum named after him. Millions of people tune in to watch him on televised parliamentary debates. His posters outsell those of pop stars and baseball heroes. Last week, a glossy photo book about him hit the stores, with a blurb from Koizumi that says, "Everything you want to know about me is in here...
...intensity of the President," Reid, a Democrat, told me. "I've been in a number of meetings with him and he's kind of a hale, hearty, pat-you-on-the-back-nice-man. But here he was a nice man but extremely intense. Obviously he was really in tune with what the program was going to be. He was really sincere and intent. Everyone got the impression of how this had affected him personally...
...intensity of the President," Reid, a Democrat, told me. "I've been in a number of meetings with him and he's kind of a hale, hearty, pat-you-on-the-back-nice-man. But here he was a nice man but extremely intense. Obviously he was really in tune with what the program was going to be. He was really sincere and intent. Everyone got the impression of how this had affected him personally...
...Western cultures everywhere to become global without being globalized, to step on the world playing field without being ground into it. In today's global music, musical boundary hopping is often integral to a political message, as when Haiti's Boukman Eksperyans sets a Creole antiwar chant to the tune of Kyu Sakamoto's 1963 single Sukiyaki, an American chart topper by way of Japan. (For Bookman, even singing in Creole--which has periodically been outlawed in Haiti--is a political act.) Protest singers in Africa and the Caribbean have long preached a musical and lyrical Pan-Africanism, from Kuti...