Organized religion can be a disaster. The arts offers Truth, imo. Paintings...music...books. One can find solace - and companionship - through the arts in a big way. The great artists strove to be immortal for a reason. Their creations *last*.

Some people who find churches to be peaceful, though. The ambiance can be soothing. And the organ. As long as you don't have a priest or minister ...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's recent denial that the Imperial Japanese Army coerced women into sexual slavery during the 1930s and 1940s overshadowed an International Women's Day forum at the United Nation's University in Shibuya Ward.

Andrew Horvat, a visiting scholar at International Center for the Study of Historical Reconciliation at Tokyo Keizai University, told the audience on Thur...

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It is a truism that the bar, the pub, the tavern, the alehouse, the local, the watering-hole and the seedy dive collectively exert an influence over human culture that cannot wholly be explained by the lure of alcohol. We are drawn to the lights, the painted sign, the hubbub and (for now...

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WYTHENSHAWE, England: Wandering the streets after dusk in this endless housing project, the five teenagers said they were not troubled by the turns their lives had taken so far. Not by t...

It has been said that if one hangs around long enough, every prediction one makes eventually will come true. That appears to be the case in the housing market, where those who have been predicting a major price decline since the late 1990s finally can strut around and say "Told ya so." 33 Comment(s)

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In Jamaica, levels of poverty and degradation of the majority push victims to apocalyptic suffering and violence. In trying to assess what ails society, the leaders stick passionately to the present, ignore history, and come up with solutions which compound the problem. The violence practised against millions of our ancestors in the past is forgotten, so people marvel at the very limited violen...

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Descending the stairs into Cross Club is like descending into a bizarre but alluring industrial wasteland. Thedating scene here is casual and open, typical of the Czech Republicwhich is said to have uniquely liberal attitudes toward sex andrelationships. Two young men slouching in a booth shotgun a joint: oneinhales the smoke deeply, clenches his hand and puts it to his mouth,and thrusts the ot...