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...Washington's interest in bolstering the alliance is plain, so is Tokyo's. Koizumi has made a strategic decision to yoke his nation ever more tightly to the U.S. as a buffer to the seemingly inexorable rise of China, measured not least by the rapid modernization of its armed forces. During his four and a half years in office, Koizumi has pushed Japan and its so-called Self-Defense Force into a much higher profile on the world stage. In 2002, the Japanese destroyer Kirishima set sail for the Indian Ocean to help refuel U.S. and allied ships involved...
...election’s result, announced yesterday, reflects a campaign fought on questions of personality and popularity, not policy; the council’s new leaders, Glazer and Nichols, will be subject to the same lacklustre, apathetic expectations that were the yoke of their predecessors. If Glazer and Nichols truly want to make a difference in the way in which the Undergraduate Council conducts its business, and make the council a vibrant, vital and versatile part of undergraduate life, they will have to start from the ground up by changing the atmosphere in which council leaders are elected...
...Tale of Two Sisters by director Kim Ji Woon?is a case in point. Oh Ki Min, the movie's producer, describes this saga of domestic murder and madness as "a Korean version of American Beauty ... a tale of middle-class family dysfunctionality for a country still under the yoke of Confucian patriarchy." Made for just $3.7 million, the film drew more viewers last year than any horror movie in the country's history...
...among Harvard students has not felt the oppressive weight of the study card beat upon his or her brow? From the long, hard trek to Sever Hall to claim one’s card, one’s yoke, to the agony of filling out laboriously the myriad bubbles with obscure course numbers, to the patriarchal ritual of seeking out and gaining the approval of one’s academic adviser-cum-overlord, the study card is an institution without which Harvard students will be better...
...founding fathers struggled to escape the heavy yoke of one King George,” Byrd said. “We must not acquiesce to the dictates of another. As Brutus said to Cicero when Cicero was attempting to curry special favor of Antony, ‘Our ancestors would have scorned even a gentle master...