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...soothed by a soak in the deep, hot bath, we eat dinner wearing long, cotton yukata gowns and sitting on the floor at low, lacquered tables. The innkeeper produces a feast of baked river fish and mountain-grown vegetables, which we wash down with cold beer and warm sake...
...historian Thomas Carlyle once claimed that "All true work is sacred." To which the philosopher John Stuart Mill responded: "Work ... is not a good in itself. There is nothing laudable in work for work's sake." Ever since, a debate has been raging in Western societies about the nature of toil - what it is and what it's worth. In Blood Sweat & Tears (Texere; 338 pages) Richard Donkin, a Financial Times writer on management topics, sets out to find some answers. The quest is not a complete success, but it does offer some comfort to today's overworked wage slaves...
...music today you can make a political statement just by not being stupid for the sake of popularity. A lot of groups are dumbing themselves down to be popular with a whole bunch of 13- and 14-year-olds. The Roots, whose members are mostly in their late 20s, say, "Forget that. We're not kids. We're not pretending to be. We're hip-hop, and we'll lay it out on the line, and eventually we'll attract them...
...Dancing Fridays ANITA HILL David Brock apologizes for sleazing her in articles and a 1993 book. Anita celebrates by beating him senseless?then apologizing SHEIK HASINA Bangladeshi Prime Minister finishes full term in office, the first ever in country's history. Holds last-minute coup "for old times' sake...
...think Representative Condit's behavior perhaps should not be understood too quickly. On the surface, it looks as if Condit has been guilty of disastrously bad public relations-concealing himself for so long from the press, seeming evasive, looking guilty etc etc. But think, if only for the sake of speculation: a deftly sinister and manipulative Machiavellian, if he were guilty of something far worse than adultery, might behave exactly as Condit has. That is, he might use an apparent ineptness at public relations, combined with grudging revelation of the affair with an intern (tacky, but comparatively innocent, under...