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...postwar identity as the world's great pacifist economic power. Now, China's rise seems to have changed the entire nation's thinking about how to conduct its affairs abroad. Polls show that a majority of Japanese are in favor of revising the constitution and nearly half want to abandon the provision against collective defense. Ross Schaap, Japan analyst at the Eurasia Group consultancy in New York, says changes to the electoral process in 1994 that required candidates to appeal more directly to individual voters than group constituencies such as unions and business groups have given the edge to more...
...maybe NBC President Jeff Zucker ’86 ought to steal a different piece of theological wisdom: “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here...
...face of Mugabe’s half-crazed will to power and institutional invulnerability, the MDC should abandon its attempts to achieve change within Zimbabwe’s democratic system. Mugabe has stolen three successive elections, and hoping for a sudden change of heart from Mugabe is self-destructive; participating in unwinnable elections weakens the MDC and disillusions its supporters. Why risk life and limb for a hopeless cause? The MDC’s hopeless campaigns only legitimize the ZANU-PF’s dictatorship; an impotent opposition provides Zimbabwe with the façade of a democracy...
With more factories around the world, Toyota has had to abandon its distinctive one-on-one training methods, prompting questions about whether the company can maintain its vaunted production standards. In the old days, Japanese manufacturing gurus schooled in the legendary Toyota production system would move overseas and practically live in a new plant for a few years. Classroom training is now the rule. And for the first time, Toyota's U.S. plants--not factories in Japan--are acting as the "mother ships" for new factories. A Georgetown, Ky., plant shepherded a new truck plant in Mexico...
...have to speak about the real anger among black people, anger that can become mindless. You see what they can do--burning people and so forth--and you want almost to abandon them. And then, at the same time, they still have an incredible sense of humor. You say something and they laugh. And even now there is no generalized hatred of whites. There is still a fantastic fund of goodwill. You would think that blacks would be saying that the best kind of white man is a dead white man. But you cannot sense any hostility toward whites...