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Japanese stocks have put a world of hurt on intrepid investors who dared to call that market's bottom at any time in the past decade. Now with the Japanese economy seemingly bent on a fourth recession since 1990, few are inclined to try again. And that's a shame. With the yen near record lows and the U.S. economy headed into recovery, the stocks of some Japanese exporters are looking attractive...
...want a life. I want to be normal again. I want to go to work, come home, see my kids, go on vacation," he says. Then, hearing himself, he adds, "That's a lot of wants." It's clear to everyone who knows Sanders that this time he is bent on reinventing himself. It is equally true that he has never been good at handling life's most punishing moments. His default tendency has always been to escape, either in body or in mind...
...went from a government group that was bent toward Boston with minimum attention to Cambridge [to a new administration],” Sullivan said. “I think there may be some reluctance to meet with the council, but I think it would behoove them...
...anything be done to keep small planes - smaller weapons than commercial aircraft, but weapons nonetheless - out of the hands of those bent on harm or suicide? Sure, says Warren Morningstar, vice president for communications at the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, but there's a limit to what officials can change. Much of the responsibility for safety lies in the hands of pilots themselves...
Bush came into office without his father's overseas Rolodex or fascination with the globe. He had traveled little, and though his family had belonged to the internationalist wing of the G.O.P. for years, his conservative bent gave his foreign policy instincts a marked unilateralist swagger. Until the war, Bush's most notable actions in foreign affairs had had a controversial, go-it-alone feel--developing missile defenses, withdrawing from the Kyoto treaty on global warming, undermining peace talks between the Koreas--and had earned him the unease of allies across Europe and the world...