Word: alberto
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...even the occasional pro wrestler. A candidate who is the ex-president of a foreign country currently living under house arrest 11,000 miles away , however... that's a new one, even for Japanese democracy. But on Thursday morning the tiny conservative People's New Party (PNP) confirmed that Alberto Fujimori, the former president of Peru and a Japanese citizen, would campaign for the Diet under the PNP's banner. "I have agreed to run in the upper house elections," Fujimori told reporters at a press conference at the PNP's headquarters in Tokyo. "Please give me your support...
White House aides couldn't have been more pleased at the failure of the Democrats' attempt to get a no-confidence vote against Attorney General Alberto Gonzales this week. While the Democrats managed to win over a few Republicans, bringing to nine the number of G.O.P. Senators now publicly opposed to Gonzales' continued service as head of the Justice Department, the overall effect of the maneuver was to make it look as if the effort to bring Gonzales down is stalling. But the relief at the White House and Justice may be premature...
...According to Sen. Kyl, he'll have to, for "there's not a lot more that we're going to do this month that's any more important than [immigration reform]." "Surely this is more of a priority than pontificating about Alberto Gonzales," Kyl said, referring to Monday's debate on a one-line, non-binding resolution of no confidence against the embattled Attorney General. "This bill is not dead." It will have to be re-animated fairly soon, though, if there's to be any hope for immigration reform this year. "We kind of need to get this back...
...Spirits, the biggest whisky maker in India, and the Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) have been doing a brisk trade in bitter remarks, each charging the other with unfairly blocking its exports. Hardly the spirit, given that "scotch whisky is enjoying its best growth prospects for a generation," according to Alberto Gavazzi, global brands director for Diageo, the producer of Johnnie Walker...
...might be sitting on billions of barrels of oil. For the last few years, the islands have been buzzing with the hope that it will make millionaires of them all and transform a nation where the average annual income is $390. "This is a very poor country," says Luis Alberto Praxeres, executive director of São Tomé's National Petrol Agency. "Oil could solve all our problems...