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	<title>Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon &#187; Current Events</title>
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	<description>Michael K. Bourdaghs&#039;s Blog</description>
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		<title>The Occupation That Never Ends</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2012/02/01/the-occupation-that-never-ends/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:26:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The top story on tonight&#8217;s NHK 9:00 p.m. news (following a breaking report about an avalanche in Akita Prefecture) was of the latest outrage from Okinawa. The Japanese government, supposedly the representative of the will of the people, has been caught trying artificially to manufacture that will. Over the last two days, repeated acts of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Music Sans Guitar</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/12/15/music-sans-guitar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 03:15:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m feeling gorged in contemporary music that eschews the guitar. There is, for starters, the brilliant British charity holiday single by &#8220;Cage Against the Machine,&#8221; an all-star assemblage of performers gathered in one studio to record an epic cover version of John Cage&#8217;s 4&#8217;33&#8243; (you know, the one that is 4 minutes and 33 seconds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moneyball and the Limits of Managerial Science</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 14:21:48 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[baseball]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve finally gotten around to reading Moneyball, Michael Lewis&#8217; now-classic 2003 portrait of Oakland A&#8217;s general manager Billy Beane. A decade ago Beane led the statistical revolution in contemporary Major League baseball, using computers, the Internet, and statistics to identify sources of talent that were undervalued by traditional baseball wisdom (meaning, primarily, the collective wisdom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This and That</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/11/05/this-and-that-17/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Nov 2010 00:47:20 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Classical]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a jumbled week, with little time for arranging thoughts into anything so orderly as sentences. A week ago Thursday, I made my first visit of the season to Symphony Center to see Jaap van Zweden lead the local favorites in a very fine program of Mahler, Shostakovich, and John Luther Adams. Both Andrew [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands Dispute</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/10/26/1023/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My translation of a recent commentary by Wada Haruki on the Senkaku/Daioyu Islands territorial dispute between Japan and China has just appeared in the on-line Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus. Wada, an emeritus professor at the University of Tokyo, is one of Japan&#8217;s leading historians of Korea and Japan-Korea relations. Wada provides useful analysis of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another One Bites the Dust in the J-Pop Scene</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/09/02/another-one-bites-the-dust-in-the-j-pop-scene/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a little behind the curve on this story, but]]></description>
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		<title>Whither the New Consensus?</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/08/13/whither-the-new-consensus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:24:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bourdaghs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[He pontificates: In retrospect, the vaunted &#8220;liberal consensus&#8221; that dominated postwar American culture began breaking down in the 1970s. Richard Nixon in many ways represented both its culmination and its collapse: the former right-wing anti-Communist ended up presiding over the last wave of Great Society projects, but Nixon also helped engineer the liberal consensus&#8217;s downfall. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sumo in Trouble</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/06/27/sumo-in-trouble/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 14:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The powers-that-be in the world of sumo have backed themselves into a corner. The artificially inflated ethical standards that were invoked to dethrone the foreign yokozuna Asashoryu now prove unattainable for the Japanese-born wrestlers and managers. In particular, the holier-than-thou attitude that developed over the past few years has now inadvertently provoked a major piling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>South Africa and Soccer</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/06/23/south-africa-and-soccer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bourdaghs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watching the World Cup matches from South Africa&#8211;including this morning&#8217;s anxiety-provoking U.S. 1-0 victory over Algeria to advance us into the second round&#8211;and reading Nick Hornby&#8217;s Fever Pitch, I&#8217;ve frequently been reminded of my teen-age years, spent as a fervent follower of the North American Soccer League&#8217;s Minnesota Kicks. Several of the Arsenal players that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maybe It&#8217;s Not All Bad&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/06/11/maybe-its-not-all-bad/</link>
		<comments>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/06/11/maybe-its-not-all-bad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 23:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bourdaghs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the most part, I accept the thesis &#8212; argued, for example, by Nicholas Carr (thanks for the link, Linda) &#8212; that the Internet is making us all stupid and asocial. On my visit to Japan a couple of months ago, a friend put her finger precisely on why reading text on a computer screen [...]]]></description>
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