Escaping the cycle of eternal recurrence

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Architect Arata Isozaki asserts that Japanese history is a recurring sequence of internalization of outside cultural influences, the resulting agitation and receptiveness to more external ideas. He also stresses the need to integrate modernist and traditional strains in building design in order for both Japanese and westerners to appreciate it.

Social aspects, Japan, Architecture, Japanese, Japanese architecture, Isozaki, Arata

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Does rock wreck families?

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Warner Bros. Records Chmn. and CEO Danny Goldberg believes that conservatives like Newt Gingrich have contradictory views regarding the mass media. Goldberg does not see any logic in blaming sources of entertainment, such as music, for the moral erosion that prevails in American society.

Officials and employees, Sound recording industry, Recording industry, Warner Brothers Records Inc., Goldberg, Danny

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An isolationist hegemon?

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Issues relating to US foreign policy, and risks of isolationism under George W Bush are examined in detail. The impact of the approach includes a renegotiation of power balances.

Editorial, United States, International relations, Bush, George W.

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