Beauty
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Beauty’s ‘Japaneseness’ Criteria
The accomplishment of Riyo Mori, a 20-year-old dancer from Shizuoka Prefecture who won the Miss Universe 2007 pageant last week, appears to offer a good opportunity to review changes in popular perception of beauty in the past century. Mori’s victory in the contest in Mexico on May 29 marked the second time a Japanese contestant […]
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The TAO of Traning: Perils of Falling In Love
The beauty scheme is one of the best known of the 36 strategies, but many do not recognise it as a strategy of disadvantage. It is used to distract opponents who may use overwhelming force. Its crude interpretation bears little relationship to the more sophisticated applications of this strategy in business and the markets. Sometimes […]