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...bet on it. A lifelong right-winger from conservative stock (his grandfather was arrested as a war criminal after World War II, though never charged), Abe has visited Yasukuni repeatedly in the past. So far he has refused to say whether he would go as PM, but even if Abe defuses tensions over Yasukuni, he has other ways to rile Japan's neighbors. For a start, local media reported last week that he has plans to revise the country's pacifist constitution to allow Japan's self-defense forces greater participation in allied military operations?a signal that...
...PROSPECT OF A HILLARY-FOR-PRESIDENT campaign has put much of the Democratic establishment in a bind. The early line is that Hillary would be unstoppable in a Democratic primary but unelectable in a general election. That bet would help explain the curious political subspecies I came across frequently in reporting this story: moneymen who are lining her campaign account even as they say privately they hope...
...predominant alternative to walking. But if it's too far to walk or you need to go three or four times faster than walking, which is as fast as you can go in a downtown, I can't say it will be a Segway. But one thing I bet you right now, anything you wanna bet, there is no chance that we will still have 10 or 15 years from now the majority of our society, in developed parts of the world, in big cities, consuming fuel, creeping along, sucking up each other's exhaust at 6 miles an hour...
...None of these candidates is a sure bet to win. Ford, a Democrat, is running in a conservative state, while Republicans Steele and Swann are contesting in places that traditionally elect Democrats. Mfume and Blackwell have better-funded opponents. Patrick in Massachusetts may have the best shot, as he is leading in the polls, but to win he has to get past two strong opponents in a Democratic primary and then a moderate Republican in the general election. But if a few of them win, it would make 2006 a watershed year for blacks in politics. There have been only...
There are plenty of reasons not to put too heavy a bet on Tennessee just yet to give the Democrats their inside straight. The South has not sent a black Senator to Washington since Reconstruction. More recently it has been hostile territory to Democratic Senate candidates of any race. In 2004 alone the party lost five Southern Senate seats, leaving only four of the region's total of 22 seats in Democratic hands. And, of course, Gore could have been President but for his failure to carry his home state in 2000. For Republicans, "Tennessee is their fire wall," says...