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...example of Panama's woes is the Atlantic Coast city of Colon (pop. 100,000). Once a prosperous port of call for ocean liners, today the country's second largest city seems to harbor only misery. Rotting tenements line the streets, unemployment exceeds 25%, drug use and violent crime are rampant. Deane Hinton, the American ambassador to Panama, first visited Colon in 1938, when it was "a beautiful city." Now, he says, it is "a disaster area...
...controversy that surrounded his father, Emperor Hirohito, for his role in World War II. But it coincided with the publication in the magazine Bungei Shunju of some recently discovered notes on conversations between Hirohito and aides in 1946, in which he discussed his role prior to Pearl Harbor. "It was unavoidable for me as a constitutional monarch," he said, "to do anything but give approval to the Tojo Cabinet on the decision to start the war." Had he opposed the attack, the result most probably would have been a coup d'etat. The country would have been violently and pointlessly...
...perhaps his most egregious lapse from the party line, Silber opposese just about every environmental initiative that has been proposed for the state. He opposes secondary treatment for the cleanup of Boston Harbor and has called stricter state auto emissions standards an unfair burden on Massachusetts. He opposes the Massachusetts Recycling Initiative, which would require all packaging in the state to be recycled or recyclable...
...alumna of Tanglewood, the summer music festival where Bernstein was "discovered" and where many of his greatest performances took place, I harbor a deep respect and reverence for this truly "great man." But my earliest encounter with Bernstein came long before my summer as a Tanglewood student...
...about the level of voter disgust with the budget debacle. "Will I pay new, higher taxes, even if I think they're unfair?" asks Will Brennan, a business representative for the electrician's union in Chicago. "What choice do I have? I can't go throw tea in the harbor...