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...Hong Kong government's greatest failing may be its complete inability to inspire trust. The economy is reeling, anxiety is mounting about potentially harsh anti-subversion laws, and a fresh health crisis is brewing. Yet all those problems-serious though they are-are mere symptoms of the underlying ailment. Even in the colonial era, Hong Kong's citizenry put its faith in its leaders to do their best by the people. But now the growing sentiment is that the government is out of touch with the popular mood, or worse, simply doesn't care...
...Forget (for now) the banking system crippled by mountains of bad loans, a government debt equal to 130% of the nation's GDP, deflation that sucks the life from corporate profits and a stock market hovering near its lowest point since 1983. There is a more fundamental ailment undermining the world's second-largest economy: Japan's labor force is one of the most unproductive in the industrialized world. And not by a little. According to the Japan Productivity Center for Socio-Economic Development, a government-affiliated research center, Japanese laborers are 40% less efficient than Americans, 20% less efficient...
...failure stems from misinformation. Only one of the 10 students I asked knew what foster care is, a temporary care situation for a child in need, with a variety of scenarios. For example, when I was in preschool, my single mother became very sick with a kidney ailment (exacerbated by my jumping on her kidney that morning), and had to go the emergency room. Her friends were at work and couldn’t take me. The doctor threatened to call Social Services, because a hospital is “no place for a small child...
...Musharraf said he believed bin Laden had died of a kidney ailment. And when he's not declaring bin Laden dead, he has joined a long list of U.S. officials who have been insisting that the terrorist leader was not the ultimate prize. "We've always said that al-Qaeda did not depend on Osama bin Laden," Rumsfeld said last week. Yet the Defense chief also acknowledged "that tape was intended to be a very clear threat." In time, we will learn how crucial bin Laden's existence is to al-Qaeda's. But in symbolic terms, the value...
Sidelined by an ankle injury for two games last season, the ailment has reared its ugly head again in the preseason this year. However, Cserny started practicing last week and is not expected to miss any games, which is good news for Delaney-Smith, who describes Cserny’s game as “magnificent...