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...ragged by then from years of drug use. She felt God's heart breaking at the touch of cold steel on her soft young wrist; a little more pressure was all it would take. She felt like she was betraying him. She put the blade back in the medicine cabinet...
...chair. "I love it when they call me a dictator here!" he says. "That they can say it [freely] refutes it. That was not the case under a real dictatorship like the Duvaliers." He has offered to hold the Senate elections again and has brought the opposition into his Cabinet. He pledges to privatize such industries as electricity, plug the poor into capitalism by slicing red tape and breathe 4% growth into the economy...
...other words, he isn't likely to turn Japan upside down. True, he did appoint a Cabinet that is younger and includes more women and more non-politicians than usual--notably Japan's first female Foreign Minister, Makiko Tanaka. But it's hard to find a clear pattern: one of his economic advisers favors corporate restructuring and repairing the banking system; another leans to traditional pork-barrel politics. Koizumi's immediate problem is that dramatic reforms take time to implement, and the Japanese public that adores him today will turn on him tomorrow if he doesn't produce results...
...might restrict the President for a Day from issuing executive orders or declaring war or firing cabinet members, but why can't he greet the Girl Scouts, welcome foreign ambassadors, and give the odd speech - the kind of ceremonial things that mostly make up a President's day anyway? And like being an astronaut (remember, we've sent chimps and retired senators into space), there are no real requirements for the job. As far as I can tell, the constitution says nothing against renting out the Presidency for a premium rate...
...China: Having come through a campaign echoing the by-now traditional presidential campaign trail theme of getting tough on China, President Bush had hardly been in office two months when he was faced with the complex challenges posed by the spy-plane incident. Although the President and his cabinet secretaries managed to walk that one back from the precipice, it created a pressure-cooker environment for the formulation of policy in Washington's most complex strategic relationship. Because mixed messages from the Bush administration tend to generate uncertainty and anxiety in the Chinese leadership, and that tends to work...