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...Ekkelkamp, a middle-A MIDDLE-aged Dutch woman, has a gap between her two front teeth. Norwegian toddler Ragnar Bang Ericsson has a small triangular birthmark on his lower back. Jacobo Hassan, a Mexican man, has an Ishaped scar below his right knee. Chie Machida, a Japanese woman, wears a pink-jeweled navel ring...
...Bridging the Gap I fully agree with your article about the existence of two Indias: the haves and the have-nots [Dec. 6]. Any development is meaningless if we are unable to provide basic facilities to all Indians. The middle class has an important role to play in this. If all those in the middle and upper classes donated just 5% of their income to charity, it would make a big difference. Much of the investment that has come into India in recent years has been confined to certain regions and selected industries. The government should increase investment...
...election, the irregularities continued, with several reports of tabulation glitches producing phantom votes for the presidential candidates. The original count finds a gap of two percent separating Bush and Kerry in Ohio—not terribly close, and certainly not narrow enough to trigger an automatic recount under state law. Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell, the overseer of the Ohio elections and a Republican who ardently supported Bush’s re-election campaign, has been adamant in his stance that the elections in Ohio were fair, and that a recount would be a waste of state tax money...
When the race began for real last spring, Bush had the support of 91% of Republicans and 17% of Democrats. This was the biggest gap in the history of the Gallup poll, and it led journalists to write about the Polarizing President and armchair strategists to remind the White House of the First Rule of Politics: once your base gets you nominated, you have to soften the edges and sweet-talk the center to get elected. Bush had honored the rule by running in 2000 as a "compassionate conservative," which was code for "I'm not as mean as Newt...
...political gap between China and Japan is getting wider. The developing economic power of China is viewed as a threat by Japan. Some of the young people quoted in your report believe that Japan has apologized enough to other countries for the suffering it inflicted during World War II. As a Japanese art student said, "The war is over. It has nothing to do with me." And yet, for the Japanese Prime Minister to regularly visit Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, where many notorious war criminals are honored, is equivalent to a German Chancellor's paying homage at a memorial...