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...didn't report the race of the accused. Some Western journalists did, but they didn't note that the accuser was almost certainly a kokujo and that the nightclub culture around the Okinawa bases is almost as segregated as the Jim Crow South. When off duty, most military personnel tend to congregate according to race. The clubs that black servicemen frequent are also kokujo haunts. Of course, for a kokujo to say she was there to meet a man is not proof of consent. In the U.S. today, a woman's lifestyle and sexual history aren't relevant in such...
...thought is this: Since both sides cannot live peacefully in the holy city, let neither have it. Vacate the Old City and its holy places - the Dome of the Rock, the Western Wall. Bring in the U.N. as a shabbes goy to tend them. The violent ardors that Jerusalem excites profane the place. They turn spiritual yearning into nationalistic fanaticism. The best human impulses (love, generosity) reverse their magnetism, and become the worst (hatred, violence...
...There are some upsides to this new approach. Who, for example, wants to sit in a seminar brimming only with trombone playing, letter wearing football players who chaired their student governments? What's more, looking beyond renaissance students, who tend to be children of privilege, has allowed admissions officers at elite schools to inject a measure of meritocracy into a process that, at an earlier point in history, largely consisted of the guidance counselor at Andover telling Harvard University which students it should admit. The downside, in Toor's view, is that with no agreed upon standard of admission...
...lead pipe cinch for Star Wars. As a fellow who knows space very well, he also knows the limitations of it, and while being an advocate for it he may also be a realist for it. Which isn?t something people who aren?t very familiar with space tend to be; they tend to be rather pie-in-the-skyish. I don?t think this guy has that kind of baggage, so that could be a good thing...
...Rolex Explorer and the Land Rover, as among those things that are "perfect-of-their-kind." This may seem extravagant praise for a cast-iron stove that has not changed in appearance since it was designed 70 years ago. But Aga owners, who number some 500,000 worldwide, tend to even greater eulogies when it comes to their "stove-oven-cooktop-heater," as Mamet styled it. "The Aga is part of the family. It's the heart of my home," says Joy Hanauer of Chiddingfold, a village 70 km southwest of London. "It's a way of life...