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Since Heizo Takenaka was appointed Japan's Financial Services Minister five weeks ago, he's been remarkably blunt about what was needed to straighten out the country's overextended, reform-proof banks, those black holes that continue to suck the life out of Japan's economy. A hard landing was...
After 48 hours without a shooting, chief Moose appeared on Sunday afternoon, Oct. 6, at a press briefing to reassure the public. He promised to "greatly increase" police presence at area schools the following day, though he couldn't guarantee officers at every building. The next morning, an eighth-grade...
In a small building on the edge of the Roswell, N.M., airport, we were given a preflight briefing. Even the veteran pilots were getting butterflies as they listened to the flight plan. Knotts explained the sequence of maneuvers we would fly to re-create such real-life accident scenarios as...
We must remember two things. First, the president has daily access to intelligence that we will never see and can hardly imagine about the threats this country faces. I know several people who, by virtue of positions they have once held, have received this briefing. They have all told me...
So, rather than drag out the conversation, most Democratic leaders want to get the Iraq vote behind them as quickly as possible, so they can spend what remains of the campaign season talking about issues that play to their strengths, such as Social Security, corporate corruption and providing prescription-drug...