2003.08.03

Shukan Gendai & the Jews Japanese weekly magazines seem to have a fascination with the Jews. A bit curious since I would bet that there are less than 1,000 Jews in the country, which has a population of 120 million. Shukan Gendai tomorrow is slated to run a multi-page article with the theme of "why are the Jews so rich?" and "why are the Jews so smart?"  Some poor and not-so-smart Jews in Japan say they intend to write a letter of protest. (Tip o' the hat to MS) 2003.08.03

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DPRK Talks Posturing Begins (Radio Australia) No sooner does the Kim regime agree to talks than they begin to tell Washington who it shouldn't send to represent it. What is the Korean word for chutzpah? Update: More here from VOA 2003.08.03

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Bad Meat (AFP via Straits Times) This was in the Japanese papers on Saturday (apologies for not posting.) I have never had raw wild boar organs (the apparent culprit in this fatal case) but I have feasted on raw horse meat in Japan. 2003.08.03

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