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...prominent businessmen or actors or sports stars standing at the head of a burakumin parade, fighting for their rights. And unless you've been paying close attention, you wouldn't know that Nonaka comes from a burakumin family. Japan's mainstream media studiously avoid mentioning his background; reporters say they have been warned not to by Nonaka's aides. Nonaka declined requests to be interviewed for this article, but his brother, Kazumi, reacted angrily last week when asked about his family's heritage. "It's entirely beside the point," he said...
...They snorkeled. They laughed. They played with shells. And they didn't talk about the game. "It was very, very romantic on top of everything else," Jerri said, with faux-"Titanic" music swelling in the background. "I got a tender side too." And when they got back Colby reached into his bag of charm and produced a special souvenir piece of coral for all the campers that had had to stay behind. ("Look, Tina, it's orange, for Tennessee!") Gee, that Colby sure is a super...
...asks people to e-mail her messages rather than leave them on her telephone answering machine. Perhaps the most difficult listening environment is a noisy party or restaurant gathering, where many people are talking at once and the clatter of dishes adds to the cacophony. To reduce the background noise and focus on the conversation at hand, Bernstein uses a tiny direct-audio-input microphone connected by wire to her hearing aids...
...industry.) In 1979, an investigation conducted by Congress's House Assassinations Committee disagreed - a fourth shot, which missed, had been fired from behind a white picket fence on that grassy knoll. In 1982, however, a special panel of the National Academy of Sciences insisted the fourth shot was random background noise, probably static...
Fundamentally, Bush's method of running his administration may be more attributable to his party affiliation than to his educational background...