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...they want to know now. In May the opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) revealed that records of up to 50 million pension accounts had been misplaced and couldn't be connected to their owners, due to a monumental bureaucratic error. When Abe appeared more concerned with dodging the blame than solving the problem, his already wobbly approval ratings went into free fall. "This may not be the fault of the current administration, but it's inevitable they will be judged by how they handle the crisis-and it's hardly been adequate," says 57-year-old Hideki Tamura...
Well, I guess that's why I'm not the commissioner. [Laughs.] When you get into the NBA, you are a man. You have to be accountable. You should not have to rely on anyone else. You control what goes on in your life, and you can't blame anyone else when you get in trouble...
...blame Clinton for reusing such a powerful story to end her speeches. In speechmaking, if something works, you use it and use it and use it again. (Robert Kennedy so frequently ended his 1968 campaign speeches with his paraphrase of the George Bernard Shaw line, "Some men see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not," that reporters covering his campaign used it as a cue to head for the buses. A fact RFK himself noted by one day just replacing the quote with "Run for the buses...
...wise to recommend food with no labels: fresh fruits, vegetables, fish and bread. I lived in the U.S. for two years, and I know that healthful foods are available, even in supermarkets. People simply do not buy them. Price may be the reason, but I think advertising is to blame. Has anyone seen prime-time TV ads for fresh apples or cucumbers? Hanna Bortkiewicz, WARSAW...
...richest nation in a blighted continent, South Africa is a magnet for immigrants. And, as in Western Europe and the U.S., the more foreigners arrive, the greater the hostility to their presence. South Africans commonly blame Zimbabweans who fled their country's implosion - there are between 1 and 2 million here - for a recent surge in crime. Nigerians escaping violence and corruption are viewed as a nation of drug dealers. They, and Congolese, Angolans, Rwandans and Burundians, have been among the victims of deadly bias attacks in recent years. Black poverty in South Africa may be fueling resentment against immigrants...