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...have taken weeks - if not months - to work its way through the Diet. So why did Abe, only three days after promising to fight on, decide to throw in the towel? Plagued by rumors of chronic ill health, he looked exhausted in the days before his resignation announcement. "Abe broke under the pressure," says Norihiko Narita, a politics professor at Surugadai University near Tokyo. "The weight of his responsibilities was just too much." For his part, Ozawa expressed bewilderment over the about-face. "I have been in politics nearly 40 years, and this is the first time I've seen...
BABY BOOMERS KNOW HER AS the icy matriarch on TV's hit prime-time soap Falcon Crest, as Ronald Reagan's first wife and as mother of Maureen and Michael Reagan. Yet in the 1950s, the unpretentious Jane Wyman was one of Hollywood's most respected stars. She broke out of B movies in Billy Wilder's The Lost Weekend and went on to vibrant performances in such films as 1948's Johnny Belinda (her portrayal of a deaf and mute rape victim won her an Oscar) and Alfred Hitchcock's Stage Fright. She broke her long silence on Reagan...
...sole selector in 1990, when the films were shown in the rattily atmospheric Bloor Cinema. Cowan cites Tarantino as helping the section when, showing Reservoir Dogs in another part of the festival in 1992, "he brought his actors out to most of our films that year. He really broke it open, talked in interviews about how cool he thought Midnight Madness...
...optimism broke on the rocks of realism. How can any fractional reduction in energy consumption or carbon dioxide (CO2) output in a small region of well-off America make a noticeable difference while mammoth developing nations such as China and India go on a rampage of power plant-building and car-buying? Will the environmental blindness of the economic growth of these and other developing countries—not to mention continued energy-intensive expansion in America—nullify the effect of every green project for years to come...
Freshman Kerry Kartsonis and Wideroff broke free to challenge the Huskies defense in the second half, and fellow first-year Katherine Sheeleigh closed the door on the squad with her first goal of the season, a laser from 25 yards out that found the top-right corner of the goal...