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...would claim its rightful place on the global stage. The 52-year-old vowed to repair relations with Asian neighbors still wounded by Japan's wartime aggression and aimed to transform the nation's military from a limited self-defense force into a proper army. It was an ambitious agenda that, if successful, would have reminded East Asia that China would not be able to determine the region's future alone. After its lost postbubble decade, Japan, Abe seemed to be saying - with the most developed economy in Asia and with mature democratic institutions - would help shape the Asian century...
...Just another typical installment of Midnight Madness, the festival's nightly showcase for pictures with an outrageous agenda and a racing pulse. There are films, and then there are movies; the Madness audience knows the difference and celebrates it. But they're not slumming. "They're diehard festival goers," says Colin Geddes, the section's programmer. "They've been to three or four films that day and this is their last stop. They know they're going to see a film that will thrill them. But they understand world cinema. After nearly every film the director does...
...mail, then added in a telephone interview, "We're not adjusting our policy in Nicaragua depending on what Ahmadinejad is up to." The Bush Administration has not focused on Nicaragua much at all, despite the election of the leftist Ortega. Foley says merely that Washington "has a positive agenda in the hemisphere and we are working with our partners to strengthen democracy, promote prosperity and invest in people...
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...hope that Gambari will do an informal briefing to the Security Council, and [that the Council will put Burma on its agenda]. We've seen that for the last 17 years, the generals have become more and more isolated. They've built a new capital in the center of the country. We never seem to get any response, even when the meeting was facilitated by the Chinese...