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...think the North Koreans have been, frankly, a little bit disappointed that people are not jumping up and down and running around with their hair on fire." CONDOLEEZZA RICE, U.S. Secretary of State, on the muted global reaction to North Korea's latest nuclear weapons disclosures and its pullout from multilateral disarmament talks...
...Malgudi district, a fictional area of southern India that Narayan has been tilling for the past 50 years. Not much changes in Malgudi. The British, who are rarely mentioned in this book, have come and gone. World War II is recalled for its temporary effects on the price of rice. The riots that break out between Hindus and Muslims when India achieves independence are seen through the eyes of a neutral, nondescript hero: "It was on the whole a peaceful, happy life--till the October of 1947, when he found that the people around had begun to speak...
...rain. There was no hint of the violence to come in Manila last week as some 3,000 demonstrators began marching from the U.S. embassy toward the presidential palace. Most of the noisy, jostling crowd was made up of farmers from central Luzon, one of the country's principal rice-growing regions. Joined by militant students, they were protesting both high rice prices and U.S. support for the regime of President Ferdinand Marcos...
Akoan for Action Man: What kind of expensive military hardware took its form, according to the bearer's whim, from a cow's head, a rice bowl, a pair of rabbit ears, a water plantain, a whirlpool, a pumpkin, a canyon, or the cone-shaped head of the God of Longevity? The answer is kaware kabuto, which translates from the Japanese as "conspicuous helmets." These were the singular headgear worn into battle, or during the formal maneuvers preceding it, by Japanese clan leaders, before the accurate, quick-firing arms of the 19th century rendered the helmets, their wearers...
Viewed today, the choice of motif sometimes looks entirely whimsical: a pumpkin done in black lacquer and silver leaf, or an iron eggplant. Sometimes they are ironically lowly: a rustic straw bag done in gold-and-silver-inlaid iron, or a common rice bowl. Some convey (at least from inside a glass case) a feeling of sacerdotal calm rather than ferocity, like a wonderful 17th century helmet in the form of a courtier's hat, rising like an inverted keel some two feet above the head and decorated in a tortoiseshell pattern of black and honey-colored lacquer. Others seem...