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...breakfast to the beat of Rossini's "The Thieving Magpie," The Windup Bird Chronicle is a noirish, tragi-comic epic worthy of its own praise dictionary. From a bizarre story of the thirty-something's marital and spiritual crisis, Murakami's novel kaleidoscopes out into an exploration of post-WWII Japan that moves from the horrors of war to Allen Ginsberg to the loss of a beloved family...
...John Sturges, The Eagle Has Landed (1976). In WWII's final days, Michael Caine spearheads a Nazi plot to take Winston Churchill back to Berlin ? dead or alive. Chock-full cast, from Duvall to Donald Sutherland, Donald Pleasance (with some hair) to Anthony Quayle (miscast) and on the American side, Treat Williams and Larry Hagman...
...head of a former imperial family can also instill respect and liking even if he is not officially the head of state. Since the end of WWII, the U.S., fearful of Japanese militarism, stripped the titles of Japanese-extended imperial family, as well as the rest of Japanese aristocracy and removed the emperor from his purportedly divine status. However, Emperor Akihito is still head of state in all but name, and the Japanese continue to base their calendar by the number of years Emperor Akihito has reigned. Japan, for all its increasingly egalitarian society, is still respectful of their imperial...
ZURICH, Switzerland: Swiss banks today published multi-page ads in major newspapers from New York to London to Moscow, listing WWII-era depositors in the hopes of reuniting holocaust survivors and their relatives with long-lost money. The lists are an unprecedented step for the famously discreet Swiss banks, and certainly a nifty PR move, coinciding today with the Swiss Bankers Association's announcement that it had found $15 million more that may have belonged to Holocaust victims. Ex-Fed chairman Paul Volcker, who heads an international body charged with tracking missing Holocaust assets, says a new list...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The news started as just a trickle of letters to Madeline Albright after she was named UN Ambassador in 1993: Information about the European side of her family, the side left behind when her father, Josef Korbel, fled Czechoslovakia after WWII. The trickle grew to a torrent, many from Arab groups questioning her nomination as Secretary of State in December. And on Monday, the surprising story came out in the Washington Post: Madeline Albright, raised a Roman Catholic by her Czech parents, had learned that she has Jewish roots, and that several close relatives, including her paternal grandparents...