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...goal was simply "to generate some attention" within Japan for the region's fishermen who suffer from not being able to hunt in the disputed waters. Yet the Korean response to Takeshima Day was overwhelmingly bitter, with the local government's initiative perceived as evidence of Japan's widespread, unrepentant nationalism. Korean protesters set up anti-Japan campaigns, pulled students and athletes from Japan-sponsored tournaments, canceled sister-city arrangements with Shimane towns and held demonstrations to discourage tourists from traveling to Japan. The criticism of Japan turned into a self-fulfilling prophesy as Takeshima Day 2006 took...
...that is only one of the regime's problems. Long-simmering sectarian tensions erupted into rioting and street fighting between Muslim fundamentalists and Coptic Christians in Alexandria in mid-April. And police clashed last week in Cairo with demonstrators protesting disciplinary action against two high-court judges who alleged widespread vote-rigging in last November's parliamentary elections - an embarrassing episode for a government that has been urged by the Bush Administration to implement democratic reform. Mubarak, 78, has been in power for 25 years, and his anemic response to these crises is a worrying sign. "The regime is tending...
...that is only one of the regime's problems. Long-simmering sectarian tensions erupted into rioting and street fighting between Muslim fundamentalists and Coptic Christians in Alexandria in mid-April. And police clashed last week in Cairo with demonstrators protesting disciplinary action against two high-court judges who alleged widespread vote rigging in last November's parliamentary elections--an embarrassing episode for a government that has been urged by the Bush Administration to implement democratic reform...
American fiction is in a satirical mood. Sometime in the 1990s--David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest makes a handy point of reference for weary travelers-- the earnest, rock-hewn realism of the Raymond Carver school gave way to a more fluid, molten hyperrealism. The widespread conviction that truth has become stranger than fiction triggered a kind of strangeness inflation, an arms race of exaggeration, wherein novelists satirically augment and amp up and overclock their fictions in an attempt to keep up with the sheer implausibility of real life...
...improvements that have already been made in funding (and publicity) for international experiences—more Harvard students will have educational experiences abroad this summer than during any previous summer. It is exciting to see the students’ enthusiastic response to Summers’ call for more widespread participation in research and study abroad, as evidenced by a 20-percent increase in applications to some grants. It is disappointing, however, to see this spike in student enthusiasm not matched by a comparable increase in funding. While many centers, including the Office of International Programs (OIP), indeed have more funding...