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Hatoyama will have to get the budget under control and help shift Japan away from the export-oriented economic growth that served it so well in its golden age of the 1970s and '80s. To accomplish that, Japan needs to boost domestic consumption. But its people will spend only if they feel economically secure, which is why thoroughgoing reform of the pension, health-care and unemployment systems is vital. Japan's current social-security programs hark back to an era of guaranteed jobs for life, which places unsustainable financial burdens on companies and individuals...
...countries that use the euro as their currency reached a 10-year high of 9.5% in July, though the pace of increase has slackened since earlier this year. Spain has been battered by the crunch--nearly 1 in 5 adults, and 38.4% of citizens under the age of 25, are jobless--while the Netherlands has weathered the downturn nicely, with just 3.4% of its residents out of work. Analysts say the figures underscore the growing gap between more economically stable euro-using countries, such as France and Germany, and more vulnerable members, like Italy and Ireland...
...beating ourselves up over this.' WARREN RUPF, sheriff of California's Contra Costa County, following Jaycee Lee Dugard's reappearance on Aug. 26, 18 years after being abducted at the age of 11. Rupf admitted that in 2006, his department missed an opportunity to arrest Dugard's alleged kidnapper, Phillip Garrido...
...age of celebrity, Dominick Dunne was a social commentator of the highest order. The longtime Vanity Fair writer and best-selling crime novelist, who died Aug. 26 at 83, was one of the few people I've met who could talk as well as he wrote. And he liked to talk...
...Age certainly does not guarantee victory. Just ask sophomore Holly Cao and freshman Hideko Tachibana, who competed in a Crimson-clad final in the Flight A women’s tennis championship at the William and Mary Invitational over the weekend. After a string of tough matches against a variety of highly-ranked opponents, the athletes faced one another for the title. Tachibana emerged as the victor, defeating Cao, 6-7, 6-4, 6-3.However, this was ultimately a team victory for Harvard. Cao and Tachibana showed that they could fill the shoes of graduates Beier Ko and Laura Peterzan...