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...remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, some 1,000 km south of the North Pole, is open to professional and amateur golfers from anywhere in the world. Up to 34 competitors will play on a nine-hole green - or rather, white - built on a frozen fjord off the island of Spitsbergen...
...Tokyo's joint communiqu? with Washington, however, puts Japan and Taiwan in a unique, post-colonial bear hug. Japan wrested the island from the Qing dynasty in 1895 and colonized it for 50 years before surrendering it to Chiang Kai-shek's army in 1945. Now the former colonial master is effectively promising to watch-guard its former subjects and their tense relationship with mainland China. If Taiwanese were skeptical or ambivalent, they didn't express it. "The joint declaration is a check on China," says Lai Hsin-yuan, a former adviser to Taiwan's National Security Council. Says...
...they like Taiwan: Japan accounts for the largest number of tourists visiting the island, and Japanese corporations are the biggest foreign investors there after the U.S. Taiwan likes Japan, too: although the 50 years of Japanese rule were sometimes harsh, Tokyo developed the island, educated its people, and helped give Taiwanese an identity different from their mainland cousins. "The Japanese brought security, peace, and law and order," says Joe Hung, a retired journalist and diplomat who has written a history of Taiwan. "And that started Taiwan's modernization...
...movie presents the possibility of a reconciliation between divisive Western and indigenous cultures. As an existential offering, the film asserts the power of choice, advocating fierce dedication and courage which can overcome shame and adversity. And that, ultimately, is a very powerful message to send from this distant island into a world already so crowded by globalization and mass modernization, making Eyes at once gently affecting and quietly uplifting...
Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz is a tough critic. He criticized the Rhode Island Bar for anti-Semitism. He castigated professors too timid to challenge University President Lawrence H. Summers, calling them “victims of cowardice.” He so rarely has anything positive to say that his praise of Laurie B. Puhn ’99 author of Instant Persuasion, the Coop’s featured book last week, speaks volumes...