December 2011
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Mr. Fingers - Can You Feel It
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Ferrari at it again.. →
Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo believes the team made the right decision in leaving FOTA… Luca di Montezemolo says that Ferrari withdrew from FOTA because other members were not respecting the organization’s rules. He insists that there was no collaboration on the decision with Red Bull Racing, which pulled out of the teams’ organization at the same time. “We have left FOTA of our...
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Negotiation Can Work With North Korea →
A brief recounting of historical facts shows that for the better part of two decades, stonewalling the North has consistently produced dangerous developments. Indeed, Pyongyang began acquiring the means to enrich uranium in 1997, but only after the Clinton administration was slow to live up to its end of the Agreed Framework, the U.S.-North Korean pact freezing North Korea’s nuclear effort....
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Deep Dish - Chocolate City
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Eiga Stars :: Portraits of Japanese Divas in Fan... →
The Japanese film-going public was as movie mad as any of their counterparts in the U.S., England, or France., with a healthy film publications industry that rivaled any other. According to the 1937 Cinema Yearbook of Japan, over fifty film-specific magazines were being published every year, each categorized into various sub-groups such as “Magazines for Businesses,” “Magazines for...
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Pan-Asianism as an Ideal of Asian Identity and... →
The economic and political power of Asia, the world’s largest continent, is increasing rapidly. According to the latest projections, the gross domestic products of China and India, the world’s most populous nations, will each surpass that of the United States in the not-too-distant future. China’s economy, like Japan’s, is already larger than that of any single European country. With this...
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Le Couple - ひだまりの詩
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Puncturing the U.S. Base Myths →
As Washington continues to debate the consequences of defense cuts, one line of popular thinking is that we can save tax dollars without sacrificing security if we close down our overseas bases and bring our forces home. Why do we still have bases in Europe? Shouldn’t the Japanese just defend themselves? But while we should carefully review the proper balance of our forward-deployed military...
November 2011
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