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...dapper 67-year-old. "It's a different culture, with different stakes. I felt a kind of enjoyment I couldn't get from regular work." There are thousands of other Japanese like Hagiwara, and more coming every year. JICA has seen a sharp increase in seniors volunteering to work abroad over the past decade...
...with 10%. Fischer and Chancellor Gerhard Schröder were the first German leaders born too late to feel implicated in Germany's Nazi past. One result was a bolder, more assertive German foreign policy and a willingness for the first time since 1945 to deploy German combat troops abroad. Schröder, 61, may yet find a way to hang onto some power - last week, he continued to discuss his prospects with his party and with the Christian Democrat leadership under Angela Merkel - but he looks unlikely to dominate German politics again. Other contemporaries within the government are considering...
...economist, contends in a book published last month that the glory years of the German auto industry are history and that as much as 25% of the 800,000 auto-manufacturing jobs in the nation will be cut over the next 10 years as suppliers increasingly shift production abroad. The book, titled Crash Course, has attracted wide attention in Germany, with some reviewers calling it overly bleak. Retorts Becker: "They call it bleak because Germans prefer to hear fairy tales rather than the reality...
...more we have students studying abroad, the more it will become a rational part of the decision to be at Harvard—or, rather, to be somewhere else for a semester,” Edwards said. “I’d describe studying abroad as a perspective adjustment. The world looks different once you spend a significant amount of time in another part of the world...
Without any ideological ballast, the Bush Presidency resembles nothing more than the bastard child of the Harding and Johnson administrations: from cronyism at home (from Brown at FEMA to the Miers nomination) and abroad (Iraq reconstruction contracts), to overly ambitious Great Society spending at home (Medicaid) and quagmire wars (Iraq, again). If, despite a comfortable Senate majority, Bush will not or cannot nominate a bold constructionist to the Supreme Court, it is clear that the administration and the Republican Party at large are without cohesive intellectual principles, message or vision; they are unified only by their short-term desire...