Word: citizens
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...Obara had graduated from Keio University (alma mater of newly elected Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi) with degrees in politics and law, become a naturalized Japanese citizen and legally changed his name to Obara. Once he had expunged his Korean lineage, Obara, with his wealth and his educational background, could have entered the nation's ruling élite, becoming, perhaps, a top bureaucrat or corporate chieftain. Instead he became a man of his times, leading a desultory, undistinguished existence, punctuated by his disastrous forays into real estate speculation. He formed an investment company, Plant, in 1988, relatively late in the bubble...
...recent Friday night, a glassy-eyed senior citizen treats the club to a warb-ling, sick-dog rendition of John Lennon's Imagine. Beside him a young blond girl wearing a ruffly white dress she might have worn to her prom smiles happily, her hands poised, ready to clap when her elderly companion finishes his song. At another table a man dressed in a white V-neck sweater and cream-colored golf pants is flanked by two big-boned Nordic women. In halting English, he regales them with tales of how much his hotel accommodations cost on a recent trip...
...forward on talks over an agreement to end North Korean missile testing in exchange for a new package of aid, but President Bush?s remarks in March suggest a skepticism in Washington over a policy of bribing North Korea?s President Kim Jong Il to act the responsible global citizen...
...while she is unsure what her exact future holds, she will remain in the political world, both as a Washington insider and an active citizen...
...There's a part of me that wants to go back out there and give it one more try," Brazile says. "Not as a campaign manager, but as a voter and informed citizen who can work to educate and train other citizens...