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...Seko, Abe's adviser, argues that his boss's performance on North Korea demonstrates exactly what kind of leader he is. "It shows that he is capable in crisis management," says Seko. "On issues like this he is very clear on where he stands." Given Kim Jong Il's track record, Abe can probably count on him to create trouble down the road, giving another boost to the Japanese leader's image as a "fighting politician," as his advisers put it. But Abe, like Koizumi, will ultimately be defined by how well he can manage Japan's recovering economy, solve...
...following 12 months, Tata companies donated another $97.8 million. Beneficiaries range from a host of Tata educational, health and scientific institutes that dot India to the Ganges River's giant mahseer fish, saved from extinction by a Tata-funded breeding program. The group's corporate piety extends to the boss's pay. Though the business house carries his name, Ratan Tata merely draws a salary from Tata Sons. And while hardly poor, he takes personal modesty seriously. Tall, guarded and retaining the outsider's accent he picked up in an earlier life as a trainee architect...
...This wasn't just any old armchair observer talking on Thursday. It was Richard Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations and a former member of the President's foreign policy team. Haass worked for Ronald Reagan, for Bush's father and, as the policy planning boss at State under Colin Powell during Bush's first term. By virtue of his post at CFR, he is as close as you can come these days to the voice of the U.S. foreign policy establishment...
...crime boss of “The Departed” assumes that installing cronies everywhere and undertaking occasional idiosyncratic actions will keep him permanently installed. The spying and confusing actions are carefully calculated to indicate to his subordinates that no one could do his job as well as he can, while sparing him the law’s wrath...
Being a mafia boss necessitates complete confidence in his assumptions and he assumes this will be effective. These assumptions will eventually destroy him, when he becomes unable to soothe his constituents’ fears...