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...that they e-mail but never see. Office workers are trolling online, looking for love. During the recent Coming of Age Day holiday, which honors young people turning 20, mayors in several villages walked out of celebrations because students in the audience couldn't stop their thumbs from wagging. "Forget my phone at home?" Takumi Ebina, 16, asks incredulously. "I would never do that. I can't imagine getting through the day without i-mode...
...that anybody in Kutch is likely to forget. Everyone I meet has a horrible tale. The vice-principal of a school in Gandhidham town saw a brick wall fall on her students. She wonders if she can ever return to teaching. A construction worker in Bhuj spent half a day shouting out encouragement to a woman trapped in the debris as others tried, in vain, to reach her; her last words to him were: "Be good to your family." Another man dragged two of his children out of their home and had just returned for the third when the roof...
...head for dinner (drinks are extra) at places like Kiccho, Mori's favorite, you'll discover just how much like Kabuki Japanese politics is these days. Word is that no senior LDP leader?not Aoki, not Nonaka, not Koizumi?wants to become Prime Minister just now. Forget about the jostling that appears to be going on. Sure, the party wants Mori out because he is such an embarrassment. But there is an election for the Upper House of the Diet scheduled for July 29. If the LDP bombs out as expected, an LDP Prime Minister, who also heads the party...
...will lock them up and then we will forget where we put them." ALKISTIS SOULOGIANNI, Greek cultural official, on the fate of underwear belonging to the late diva Maria Callas
...since the big bad test couldn't possibly hurt Alan Greenspan or Oprah Winfrey. But the SAT occupies a central place in the American psyche, lying at the terrifying intersection of ability, class and pride. As TV's Conan O'Brien put it, "It has taken 20 years to forget the trauma of that damned test, and looking up my scores would be like going back to Vietnam...