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- Julytouche posted on 05/11/2008This Mob Is Big in Japan By Jake Adelstein Sunday, May 11, 2008; B02 I have spent most of the past 15 years in the dark side of the rising sun. Until three years ago, I was a crime reporter for the Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's largest newspaper, and covered a roster of characters that included serial killers who doubled as pet breeders, child pornographers who abducted junior high-school girls, and the John Gotti of Japan. I came to Japan in 1988 at age 19, spent most of college living in a Zen B
- JulyJuly posted on 05/10/2008By Bob Considine TODAYShow.com contributor updated 8:35 a.m. CT, Fri., May. 9, 2008 The Duggar kids planned a big Mother's Day surprise for their mom this year. But the surprise was on them when Michelle Duggar announced on the TODAY Show that they were soon to welcome an 18th sibling. Were expecting! the happy mother told TODAY co-host Meredith Vieira and the entire Arkansas clan. Number 18! They didnt know. My girls watch the calendar like a hawk. We just found out on Monday night.
- touche posted on 05/11/2008Michael Dirda The "true glory" and "overwhelming pressure" of being Albert Camus. By Michael Dirda Sunday, May 11, 2008; BW12 NOTEBOOKS 1951-1959 By Albert Camus Translated from the French by Ryan Bloom Ivan R. Dee. 264 pp. $27.50 Many people who grew up in the 1950s and '60s worshipped Albert Camus as a literary god -- albeit a god in a rumpled trenchcoat, with a Gauloise in his left hand. Even more than Jean-Paul S
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- toucheFengzi posted on 05/10/2008Just read excerpts in Newsweek from Fareed Zakaria's new book THE POST-AMERICAN WORLD--The Rise Of The Rest. I enjoyed his earlier book, THE FUTURE OF FREEDOM. This one is equally thought-provoking. "The world has shifted from anti-Americanism to post-Americanism." So declares the author. "We are living through the third great power shift in modern history...(the first, the rise of the Western world around the 15th century; the second, the United States): the rise of the rest." However, "[t]his wi
- ¶Hung Huang posted on 12/19/2006Publisher Reflects on Politics, Money And Happiness in the New China Tuesday, December 19, 2006; A24 Hung Huang is regarded as a model by many young Chinese women. Her mother was Mao Zedong's English teacher in the 1960s, her stepfather was foreign minister in the 1970s. Despite her communist pedigree, Hung "jumped into the sea," as the Chinese say, taking advantage of economic reforms to try her luck in private business. It worked; at 45, Hung is emblematic of the new China. Her China Interact
- Old Fangzt posted on 05/10/2008Beijing podium protests possible SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - Australian Olympic chief John Coates said Saturday that he believes there's a good chance some athletes will protest on the medal podium at the Beijing Olympics. "It is a real possibility," Coates said following the Australian Olympic Committee's annual general meeting Saturday. "The IOC doesn't want the competition to be prejudiced in any way by any demonstrations. They may happen and they'll have to be dealt with depending on how
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- JulyJuly posted on 05/09/2008Despite death threats, gay bishop plans civil union Its what God is calling me to do, says controversial clergyman TODAYShow.com contributor updated 10:25 a.m. CT, Thurs., May. 8, 2008 Episcopal bishop Gene Robinson knows he is inviting death threats by entering into a civil union with his gay partner on the eve of his churchs biggest ecclesiastical conference. And he says it is worth it, because he is doing what God asks of him. When your life is at stake, you learn that there are th
- obamafanJuly posted on 05/09/2008Yesterday, Trailhead invited readers to imagine what would have to happen for Barack Obama to lose the Democratic nomination. And boy did you respond. You, dear readers, are a motley assortment of creative and disturbed geniuses. Scenarios tended to fall into a few categories: embarrassing revelations, major screw-ups, Clinton ex machinas, and unfortunate occurrences. Others involved Obama turning out to be someoneor somethingother than himself, such as the Rev. Jeremiah Wright (note that you never
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