Japan Also Rises
smith, patrick
eral faithful began scrutinizing East break apart entrenched powers D Asians in earnest at the time of the political and economic both--that late- 1990s crisis. had come to seem impervious...
...local companies need more freedom, excuse for pretending it never existed...
...Advanced broad- a very clear understanding of the dif- merely suffers...
...In effect, the Japanese--and the Koreans, the Thais, and so on--are groping for a voice with which to articulate a response--and let's use the word, an alternative--to the oneworld challenge that arrived across the Pacific lake in the 1990s.When they use that voice at last, they will speak of a hybrid, in which the local and global, the indigenous and imported, are combined--rather the way they are in some of Japan's more tasteful architectural experiments...
...But Kurtz (Marlon Brando), even when he dollars in new investment...
...Rather than expanding telecom it even erased the Tirnes's own insti-As the case of the historian Joseph regulation, pohcymakers should be tutional memory, of the "rationale" an Ellis demonstrated again this summer, lightening the load...
...Not coincidentally, the Hollings now, seemed to lack any rationale What the movie is really about is approach could be a deathblow to except the wrecking of as many hves neither war nor pohticsmwhich never hopes of providing advanced, broad- as possible on both sides" make any sense in it--but victim chic, band service nationwide.The intend- This is Times-ese for one of the the intellectual and artistic currency of ed result of separation is a highly reg- most famous lines from Coppola's film: the therapeutic age.The film's narrator, ulated wholesale telecom company "Charging a man with murder in this Captain Willard (Martin Sheen), just that provides retail phone-service place was hke handing out speeding loves his suffering at the hands of a resellers with a regulated product at tickets at the Indy 500" It is also a he...
...Times--now want us to beheve...
...The force of globalism has had its attractions across East Asia in the years since the 1997 crisis...
...You find among the Japanese an unalloyed desire for change that escapes us in our morning newspapers...
...It can certainly be more cost-The power Hollywood's Vietnam banks of the river, or else innocent effective, and thus better for con-anti-myth was already on display ear- civilians--look not only futile but sumers, to provide both basic infra- lier this year when, in apologizing for crazy...
...A second layer of"structural" separation~the creation of legally separate afflliates~would be required if the FCC finds a Bell in violation of certain specified regulations...
...We arms, the regional Bells, that had long Hills, the last thirty years have also never meet a singleVietnamese who is been organizationally separate...
...The Rose Pendant is available in three distinct editions: Pure Gold, Pure Silver, or a Stunning Combination of Gold Rose on Silver...
...What amount to reverse mergers could take years, and cost billions (Verizon estimated that a similar plan proposed for Pennsylvania alone would cost $1 billion...
...K 36 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 9SEPTEMBER~OCToBER 2OOI...
...He service, less than $10 per month in ale-blocking Soviet expansionism-as just wanted that moral T-shirt:"I sursome states...
...Their succes- suffered that people regularly lie petition now is subsidized residential sors may now regard that ration-about having served in Vietnam...
...How like- the fact that the Times's outrageous kills a peasant woman in the sampan, ly is that to happen with the oppor- remark passed virtually without notice the focus is on him as victim...
...But the back of your Rose Pendant is stamped with its purity~.999 gold or .999 silver...
...Your price: $ 99 MC0902 mention consumer confusion...
...They will eventually succeed...
...Chicks regulator-defined rates.Think of your As the conflicting accounts of Kerrey's dig it.Willard is Coppola's alter ego and local water company--stable, pre-actions showed, the people who actu- a romantic hero, even though he never dictable, probably fair, but hardly a fire- ally fought the war, on both sides, had does anything...
...This beautiful gold on silver pendant is placed in a sterling silver, teardrop bezel and 18-inch chain...
...had come to seem impervious to BABY BELL BASHER Are Americans blind when they gaze across the Pacific, or are they simply accustomed to seeing themselves, no matter which way they look...
...Equally, when the political economy here matches the imaginative buildings, the Japanese will finally have proven their point about the meaning of modernity...
...Your price: $129 Gold Rose on Silver--layered in 24-karat gold, the Rose rests on a background of pure, 99.9% silver...
...We have become accustomed to 14- or 18-karat gold and "sterling" silver because (Gold Rose on Silver Shown) that is all jewelers will sell...
...Is that photocopy machine used for infrastructure or retail service...
...The idea sounds simple on paper, but only on paper...
...It was an old story, in fact...
...lypse Now, back in theaters this fall-- the American military effort--which Though overused in management including 55 minutes of additional seems to consist mainly of blazing away theory circles, synergies can be very footage---as Apocalypse Now Redux...
...Jewelers avoid pure gold and silver because they complain they are too soft and too expensive...
...they will prove Polanyi correct.And though this is not the prevailing view, they will do so with no loss of industrial competitiveness and possibly some gain in their ability to innovate...
...K *Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation, New York, 1944...
...Those who way, though not far enough...
...The general idea is to ensure fair and level competition among rival retail telecom firms...
...It's a Rubik-cube question, in the end, because if you make the world your mirror, you will never see beyond it...
...The problem is that it contradicts everything Westerners have thought since the Enlightenmentmand everything Americans have of late chosen to place on some sort of altar: to be modern you must be Western...
...is a tribute to Coppola's effectiveness: another horrible thing he has to do...
...We have ever since alternated, pendulum-like, between yellowperil paranoia and the just-like-us syndrome...
...Pure gold is 24-karats...
...Even when he kills Col...
...This has been the American habit with Japan since Commodore Perry dropped anchor south of Tokyo a century and a half ago...
...Even the surfing Air AT&T's spectacular string of failed its conflicting evidence, undeniable car- Cavalry Colonel Kilgore (Robert marriages...
...But that is no vived The Horror...
...only the leadership remains resistant...
...One of the earlier generation of its own editori- so coveted is the reputation of having biggest impediments to local com-ahsts helped formulate...
...But now you don't have to avoid them because...
...He ball of innovation...
...For advanced services, grievously mistaken...
...Reminiscent of proposals to break up Microsoft, splitting the Bells would increase the cost of providing telecom service, while doing nothing to help consumers...
...Under Hollings' bill, the Bells would be forced to split into two operating divisions...
...34 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 9 SEPTEMBER/OCToBER 2OOi Be Her Hero This Holiday Season[ Today, it is almost impossible to find jewelry--especially pendants~made from pure gold or pure silver...
...It was and is, as Giersch understood, swiftly destructive, and it could be applied in Asia to change...
...Since Japan launched itself upon the modern era with the Meiji Restoration in 1868, it has been bent upon proving a single beliefi to be modern does not mean to beWestern...
...Or anything much...
...eral faithful began scrutinizing East break apart entrenched powers D Asians in earnest at the time of the political and economic both--that late- 1990s crisis...
...But the ordinary Japanese is also a follower, if you will, of Karl Polanyi, who asserted that economic institutions are in essence cultural artifacts, to be understood as embedded in the societies in which they function.* This has been Japan's starting point as long as it has tried to be modern.And it holds no less now than when the Meiji oligarchs set out to join the world a century and some ago...
...same companies...
...to progress you must do as we do...
...In fact, the search for civilians inVietnam, The NewYork Times Yet, 22 years on, anyone not already synergies is a driving force in most editorialized that it scarcely mattered shackled to a Hollywood view of the other high-tech fields...
...It's not a complicated idea...
...Globalism in its current version was nothing new when it arrived flail force on Japanese shores in the early 1990s...
...Your price: $349 Gold Plated~contains a solid, 99.9% pure silver rose medallion completely layered in 24kt gold plating and affixed to a matching gold-filled teardrop bezel and 18-inch gold-filled chain...
...And it will have nothing to do with announcing decline...
...Not to James Gattuso is Vice President for Policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute...
...Pure silver is 99.9% pure, but sterling silver is only 92% pure...
...Each piece is produced from the same processes used to create legal tender coins such as nickels, dimes and quarters...
...Thus is the present moment one of fundamental importance to Japan, for the global moment is nothing if not a reassertion of the old theme.And so do the Japanese seem oblivious to the problems that obsess outsiders: the bank debts, the lumbering corporations, the public-sector deficit, and so on...
...The task of divvying up assets and responsibilities is itself a daunting one.Who should own this piece of equipment or that...
...about the war: it was mad...
...That is why you get leftish Asian pols who admire Margeret Thatcher, and populist opposition parties favoring deregulation.The battle is essentially political, but it is not left against right so much as those seeking a freed-up system versus vested interests--Japan's governing Liberal Democrats being the example par excellence...
...Reduce--rather than Apocalypse Now Redux shows even today, "The Horror" and the madness expand~forced access rules, giving more clearly than its predecessor that are mainly retrospective superimposithem a full chance to reap the returns Coppola had only one thing to say tions...
...But the war, but sexual repression and con-risked their lives doing so simply were last thing the battered telecom sector not the madmen and criminals that I I II needs now is more impediments to Contributing editor James Bowman is writ- Hollywood--and The New York investment and growth...
...at the forest or the tall reeds along the real...
...Once each piece is struck, it is affixed to a customdesigned teardrop bezel and 18-inch chain for the most elegant display...
...Crazy...
...Pure Go/d--contains a solid, 24-karat gold rose medallion and comes with a matching 14-karat gold teardrop bezel and 14-karat gold chain...
...Sometimes it's whether the killing was accidental or war must have the feehng that this illusorymwitness the post-break-up deliberate...
...purpose to it all, undertaken in good The Tauzin-Dingell bill goes part Insane.And the madness is not just the faith by honorable men...
...Here's tunity to profit curtailed by regulation...
...And we have ever since misunderstood the essence of the Japanese project...
...Part of the answer is now in, and it's not encouraging...
...One would own the facilities used for telecommunications transmission, maintaining the basic infrastructure of wires, switches and the like.The other would use this basic network to provide telecom services to the public, in competition with other firms...
...sumer society and official hypocrisy (Younger pohcymakers may want to APOCALYPSE NOT and gung-ho military culture and a ask their older colleagues about the government that won't let its boys mail they got after the 1984 AT&T BY JAMES BOWMAN write f*** on their airplanes.All conbreakup.And that involved operating F or the myth-makers of Beverly text for the war itself is missing...
...But hard as it may be to accept not less...
...and the madness of a war that then, as quite the booby he was meant to be...
...It is insane to try to fight him...
...The Rose Pendant is neither...
...A key component is a forced break-up of the regional Bell operating companies~the RBOCs, in telecom parlance--into separate retail and wholesale parts...
...He keeps the transition costs are the long-term Coppola's Vietnam soap opera Apoca-enemy out of sight in order to make costs of a break-up...
...If you purchase a 14-karat gold piece of jewelry, what you are getting is 14 "parts" of gold and 10 "parts" of some other metal, usually copper, nickel or zinc...
...included plenty of myth-unmak- not a victim.Who does Coppola supEven more important than these ing.There~ some of both in Francis Ford pose was shooting back...
...Either way, the story "with protests too much...
...ing a book about honor...
...The enemy is everywhere and structure and retail services from the former Senator Bob Kerrey's killing of nowhere...
...It's sexy...
...At the time there was a serious from broadband investment...
...heardess bureaucracy...
...BY JAMES GATTUSO E ver since "Fritz" Hollings took over the Senate Commerce Committee earlier this year, there has been intense speculation about where he will lead that panel, especially on critical issues concerning the Internet and telecommunications...
...The Rose Pendant is a "minted product" using either pure gold or pure silver (your choice...
...But Senator Hollings rejects nage and tragic aftermath--sums up Duvall) who says "I love the smell of the possibility that synergies might the American experience in Vietnam napalm in the morning" doesn't seem exist in local telephone service...
...band networks will require billions of ference between war and murder...
...Just before Congress slunk out of town for its August recess, Hollings dropped his long-awaited telecommunications reform bill into the hopper...
...But this is an idiotic assessment of the canny people who make so many of the things we now live with.They are oblivious to nothing, mindful of all.They merely define the problem in larger terms, terms that elude us because our grasp of history, always frail, has failed us again...
Vol. 34 • September 2001 • No. 7
