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...love affair between Ishmael and young Hatsue Imada (Youki Kudoh)--now the wife of the accused. We learn how, from the depths of an American internment camp, Hatsue wrote to him breaking off the affair. We observe Ishmael's tortured reaction to her letter and understand his desire to gain some measure of revenge. We witness Hatsue's internment-camp marriage to Kazuo. We are told how, after the war's end, Kazuo learned that land promised to his family had been sold to a third party, and we hear tales of his furious attempts to get it back--attempts...
Regardless of what we all might think about whether little Elin Gonzlez should return to Cuba, it seems to me that his Miami family is egregiously exploiting the media for their own gain, and at the same time, prostituting the dignity of a six-year-old boy whose mother recently died. The latest image: Elin exiting his home, holding in his hands the subpoena from House Government Oversight Committee chair Dan Burton (R-Ind.) and giving the assembled television cameras a peace sign with his left hand. How happy he looked...
...school, to Universal Studios, on shopping outings. Cameras surround his house at all hours of the day. His status--not his welfare--became the subject of intense protests by the Cuban-American, anti-Castro community in America. Cold-hearted politicians, eager to exploit the situation for political gain, quickly joined in the fun, subsuming the Department of Immigration and Naturalization Service's ruling that Elin be returned to Cuba. The media, too, deserve approbation for easily falling prey to savvy citizens' image-fashioning...
Weisinger says it was easy for the group to gain official recognition from the University because the current HAPA members were simply reviving a defunct student group...
...will be behind the register of your local A&P sometime soon. But it does mean we're approaching a greater understanding of the animal mind. The goal of animal cognition research is usually to shine light on how human intelligence differs from animal intelligence, and, beyond that, to gain insight into just exactly what intelligence is. Coming soon to your local zoo: standardized testing for growing monkeys...