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...Israeli efforts to sideline Arafat have actually made his political life easier viz-a-viz the Prime Minister Washington would love to see eclipse the aging Palestinian leader. That's because despite the fanfare that accompanied the launch of the "roadmap" six weeks ago, there has been very little easing of the siege conditions under which ordinary Palestinians are living in the West Bank. And while Abbas is seen negotiating with the Israelis and offering concessions, ordinary West Bank Palestinians know that Arafat remains confined by the Israelis, sharing their fate. That may be why Abbas continues to implore Sharon...
...except Seiji Horibuchi, president of San Francisco-based Viz Communications, who observed the popularity of anim? among American kids and decided the country was ready. Two years ago he approached Japanese publishing giant Shueisha about exporting its popular teen-oriented Weekly Shonen Jump (shonen means "boy" in Japanese) series to the U.S. After a year of negotiations, Horibuchi convinced Shueisha's skeptical executives that American kids were an audience waiting to happen. It may have helped that Weekly Shonen Jump's Japanese circulation has declined by half, to about 3.4 million, since the mid-1990s, and the company was looking...
This explosion of numbers has, of course, dramatically increased the cachet of living number-free; one of the luxuries of having a house in the English countryside is that, omitting the postal code, you can have an address made up entirely of words (viz. "Mr. Toad, Toad Hall, nr. Rat's Hole, Grahame's Head, Oxfordshire, England"). Yet somehow the figures always catch up with you in the end: villages in the Cotswolds have local phone codes five digits long--as long, in fact, as the numbers themselves. And it must be confessed that one of the only "analog" addresses...
...other words, the hate-speech discourse that Prof. Mansfield and other New Right intellectuals traffic in under the free-speech cultural agency is an extra-democratic bid to entrench privileged cultural enclaves and status enclaves. hate-speech of the type that Mansfield traffics in (viz. homosexuality "undermines civilization") is not just another disinterested quest via the free-market agency for a benign pedagogical outcome...
...past two years, I have had problems with the janitor assigned to provide services to us, viz. refusal to work and deliberate delays, which I may characterize stems from arrogance. Most tenants who have similar problems do not submit a written complaint. However, I have made several verbal complaints and +++ some in writing...