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...trillion by some economists, he has proposed cutting the budget 10% and shifting spending from public-works projects to education, job training and environmental cleanup. Koizumi has set a three-year target for settling the balance sheets of Japan's heavily indebted banks. He has appointed a free-wheeling Cabinet that is younger, more female and includes more outsiders than any seen before. Most stunning of all, Koizumi has made a promise that he will have no trouble keeping: there's going to be a lot more economic pain before things get better. Such straight talk is endearing. "I wish...
That faith is being placed in a decidedly unusual man. At one level, the Prime Minister's appeal is easy to fathom. "He wants to destroy the things people hate the most," says Heizo Takenaka, an economics professor who last spring joined the Cabinet. At the top of that list: the crusty political barons and their backroom deals, the endless paving of highways that go nowhere, schools that stress conformity over creativity. Yet in any time but the present, Koizumi would never have been trusted. He has a reputation as a lone wolf, a bit of an eccentric...
...quite literally took over the presidency. Foreshadowing Hillary Clinton, who designed and presented a health care program that failed abysmally in part because of the resentment over her assumption of presidential authority, Edith misplayed her hand. Had she been forthright about her husband's condition and allowed his Cabinet to honestly assess his condition and assume some of the presidential authority, the U.S. rejection of the League of Nations treaty might have been avoided, altering the bitter environment that encouraged World...
...Fifteen minutes later, the four Senators and Bush adjourned to the larger Cabinet Room where the congressional delegations from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Connecticut sat waiting to meet with the President. Schumer at one point stood up in that meeting and recounted how Bush had just told him that New York would get the extra $20 billion. When he sat down, he leaned over to Bush, who was sitting next to him. "You know, Mr. President, there was a lump in my throat when I said that," he whispered to Bush. "I could hardly speak." Bush patted Schumer...
...That may be only the beginning. When Bush promised this week that "terrorism will be the focus of this administration," he wasn?t only talking about the agenda at White House briefings or which Cabinet member gets to come into the Oval Office without knocking. He was talking about spending. The era of small government may be over...