The Football Hit Felt All Over Japan (Published 2018)
Taisuke Miyagawa, a football player at Nihon University, bowing at a news conference on Tuesday after issuing a public apology.Credit...Eugene Hoshiko/Associated Press TOKYO — The violent hit to the defenseless quarterback came from behind, after the first play of a game between two storied college football teams. Ordinarily, the illegal tackle would have simply drawn a severe penalty. But it happ
In Homogeneous Japan, an African-Born University President (Published 2018)
Oussouby Sacko, the new, Mali-born president of Kyoto Seika University, at his inauguration party this month.Credit...Kosuke Okahara for The New York Times KYOTO, Japan — On a beautiful spring Sunday during cherry blossom season, the new president of Kyoto Seika University welcomed students for the start of the Japanese school year. “You have left your home,” he told the 770 first-year and graduat
Facebook Data Collected by Quiz App Included Private Messages (Published 2018)
People lined up for a seat Tuesday for Mark Zuckerberg’s appearance on Capitol Hill. The Facebook chief executive will speak to lawmakers in congressional hearings on Tuesday and Wednesday.Credit...Lawrence Jackson for The New York Times The revelation widens the scope of data that was harvested from people on Facebook and how it went beyond what was publicly available. The development may provide
Opinion | Harvey Weinstein Is My Monster Too (Published 2017)
This fall, I was approached by reporters, through different sources, including my dear friend Ashley Judd, to speak about an episode in my life that, although painful, I thought I had made peace with. I had brainwashed myself into thinking that it was over and that I had survived; I hid from the responsibility to speak out with the excuse that enough people were already involved in shining a light
6 Books to Help Understand Trump’s Win (Published 2016)
For those trying to understand the political, economic, regional and social shifts that drove one of the most stunning political upsets in the nation’s history on Tuesday, we have some suggested reading from our critics and reviewers. THE UNWINDING: An Inner History of the New America, by George Packer (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) It’s possible that the book that best explains the American that ele
Steve Bannon Cited Italian Thinker Who Inspired Fascists (Published 2017)
Stephen K. Bannon referred to the Italian philosopher Julius Evola in a Vatican speech in 2014.Credit...Todd Heisler/The New York Times ROME — Those trying to divine the roots of Stephen K. Bannon’s dark and at times apocalyptic worldview have repeatedly combed over a speech that Mr. Bannon, President Trump’s ideological guru, made in 2014 to a Vatican conference, where he expounded on Islam, popu
Scientists Say the Clock of Aging May Be Reversible (Published 2016)
Impaired muscle repair in mice, left, compared with improved muscle regeneration seen after reprogramming.Credit...The Salk Institute for Biological Studies At the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif., scientists are trying to get time to run backward. Biological time, that is. In the first attempt to reverse aging by reprogramming the genome, they have rejuvenated the organs of mice and lengthened
Opinion | Sweden's Self-Inflicted Nightmare (Published 2015)
Sweden’s message to migrants in Europe is clear: Don’t come here. “Even we have our limits, and now they have been reached,” a defeated-sounding migration minister, Morgan Johansson, explained during a press conference on Nov. 5. “Those who come to our borders may be told that we cannot guarantee them housing.” That message, nailed down this week when the government announced that Sweden was reint
Emergency Declared in Ferguson After Shooting (Published 2015)
The police making arrests in Ferguson on Monday night.Credit...Richard Perry/The New York Times FERGUSON, Mo. — The St. Louis County executive declared a state of emergency here on Monday as officials and activists sought to regain control of the volatile streets after plainclothes police officers shot and critically wounded an 18-year-old black man who they said was firing on them late the night
Gabriel García Márquez, Conjurer of Literary Magic, Dies at 87 (Published 2014)
Gabriel García Márquez, the Colombian novelist whose “One Hundred Years of Solitude” established him as a giant of 20th-century literature, died on Thursday at his home in Mexico City. He was 87. Cristóbal Pera, his former editor at Random House, confirmed the death. Mr. García Márquez learned he had lymphatic cancer in 1999, and a brother said in 2012 that he had developed senile dementia. Mr. Ga
Opinion | Japan’s Dangerous Anachronism (Published 2013)
The government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe this month rammed through Parliament a state secrecy law that signals a fundamental alteration of the Japanese understanding of democracy. The law is vaguely worded and very broad, and it will allow government to make secret anything that it finds politically inconvenient. Government officials who leak secrets can be jailed for up to 10 years, and journa
A Japanese Social App Contacts New Shores (Published 2013)
Noriko Suzuki, a 22-year-old office worker in Tokyo, sends about 50 messages a day via the Line messaging app, including reports on her summer vacation and pictures of her lunch.Credit...Ko Sasaki for The New York Times TOKYO — Traditionally, Japanese bow when greeting others. They do not tend to shake hands. But millions of them have started shaking their smartphones. They do it to activate Line,
Opinion | Why Is Europe a Dirty Word? (Published 2012)
PARIS QUELLE horreur! One of the uglier revelations about President Obama emerging from the Republican primaries is that he is trying to turn the United States into Europe. “He wants us to turn into a European-style welfare state,” warned Mitt Romney. Countless versions of that horrific vision creep into Romney’s speeches, suggesting that it would “poison the very spirit of America.” Rick Santorum
Robert S. McNamara, Architect of a Futile War, Dies at 93 (Published 2009)
Robert S. McNamara, Architect of a Futile War, Dies at 93 Robert S. McNamara, the forceful and cerebral defense secretary who helped lead the nation into the maelstrom of Vietnam and spent the rest of his life wrestling with the war’s moral consequences, died Monday at his home in Washington. He was 93. His wife, Diana, said Mr. McNamara died in his sleep at 5:30 a.m., adding that he had been in f
Opinion | Cash for Trash (Published 2008)
Some skeptics are calling Henry Paulson’s $700 billion rescue plan for the U.S. financial system “cash for trash.” Others are calling the proposed legislation the Authorization for Use of Financial Force, after the Authorization for Use of Military Force, the infamous bill that gave the Bush administration the green light to invade Iraq. There’s justice in the gibes. Everyone agrees that something
Opinion | Financial Russian Roulette (Published 2008)
Will the U.S. financial system collapse today, or maybe over the next few days? I don’t think so � but I’m nowhere near certain. You see, Lehman Brothers, a major investment bank, is apparently about to go under. And nobody knows what will happen next. To understand the problem, you need to know that the old world of banking, in which institutions housed in big marble buildings accepted deposits a
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