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...country back to fiscal health with massive public-works projects, the gangs siphoned off funds by delivering bribes to politicians to secure contracts for yakuza-linked construction firms. But in recent years, Japan's huge budget deficit has forced politicians to cut back on spending and crack down on bid rigging. "The construction industry is tight even for legitimate companies," says Takashi Kadokura, an independent researcher who specializes in the underground economy. "There's less money, and the pie is getting smaller-especially outside of major urban areas, where the yakuza still largely depend on traditional businesses...
...regional cities like Nagasaki-which are more dependent on government spending to fuel local growth-are being squeezed. Increasingly desperate, they are turning up the heat on local officials to extort more money from a shrinking pool. "There are a lot of hidden tragedies involving yakuza-related organizations and bid rigging that never come out in the press," asserts Suganuma...
...selection committee announced yesterday that the Harvard women’s water polo team would receive a bid to this weekends Eastern Championship in Princeton, NJ. After failing to finish in the top two at the Northern Division Championships last weekend the Crimson’s fate was left in the hands of the selection committee who had two at-large bids to hand out. The other at-large bid was given to Bucknell University. Harvard, who has qualified for the CWPA Eastern Championships each of the past two years under head coach Erik Farrar, will be the eighth seed...
...Harvard women’s water polo team competed in the Northern Division Championships this weekend with the hopes of locking down a ticket to next weekend’s Eastern Championships. To receive an automatic bid, the Crimson would have had to finish in the top two. The team’s third place finish, however, was not enough to guarantee a spot. Harvard will have its fate decided at noon today when the selection committee meets to hand out the two at-large bids. “I think we have a good shot,” head...
...trying to persuade out-of-work politicians to return to the podium. Now, national political leaders are courting her. Shaheen met recently with Democratic campaign leaders to discuss a possible 2008 run against Republican Sen. John E. Sununu, her former rival in an unsuccessful 2002 Senate bid, The New Hampshire Union Leader reported this week. If she decides to run, the race could immediately become one of the 2008 cycle’s marquee Senate races. But Shaheen, the former governor of New Hampshire who came to Harvard in 2005, has yet to decide whether she will leave...