Gang of 14 Gang of 14 The Gang of 14 was a phrase coined to describe the bipartisan group of Senators in the 109th United States Congress who successfully, at the time, negotiated a compromise in the spring of 2005 to avoid the deployment of the so-called "nuclear option" by Senate Republicans over an organized use of the filibuster by Senate Democrats. The term alludes to the phrase "Gang of Four", used in China to refer to four ex-leaders blamed for the abuses during the rule of Mao Zedong. Senate Democrats used the filibuster to prevent the confirmation of conservative appellate court candidates
The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa the cast of mostly female juvenile delinquents who show him their way of life. The original newspaper serialization was incomplete. The remaining sections were published concurrently in two literary journals, "Reconstruction" ("Kaizō", volume 12, number 9) and "New Currents" ("Shinchō", volume 27, number 9). Markedly different from Kawabata's later work, "The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa" was greatly influenced by Western modernism. The annotated edition of this novel, translated by Alisa Freedman, includes the original illustrations by Ota Saburo and a foreword and an afterword by Donald Richie. The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa In the 1920s, Asakusa was to Tokyo what