I was lucky enough not to face any required summer reading lists until I went to college. So I still think of summer as the best time to read for fun.
For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.
The perks of working in Japan are that you might go for two weeks every three or four months, so you do work an abbreviated schedule. But you really make up for the abbreviated schedule by how hard you have to fight, how much you've got to be in shape.