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...polls have put Fukuda's public approval rating at about 25% - lower than Abe's before he resigned after less than a year in office. "When [Fukuda's] approval breaks below 20%, he's really in deep trouble," says Gerald Curtis, a political-science professor and Japan specialist at Columbia University. "That can happen and I bet he's holding his breath...
...then there are the troublesome T's: Taiwan and Tibet. "Clearly Hu Jintao would like the Japanese to line up and say that they oppose Taiwan's independence, but there's too much opposition to that from within the LDP," says Curtis of Columbia University. Experts expect Fukuda will go no further than stressing the importance of a peaceable resolution. While Fukuda may be able to manage the dialogue on Taiwan, it will be harder to control the Japanese public. A rash of pro-Tibet demonstrations by the country's Buddhists could embarrass Hu, who has been trying to quell...
...Harvard’s institutional research outfit, which Zipser described as having gone from “one person doing date processing to a really vibrant group of researchers” under her watch. Before coming to Harvard to run the unit in 2003, Zipser, who graduated from Columbia, was a mathematics instructor at MIT and a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group. —Staff writer Christian B. Flow can be reached at cflow@fas.harvard.edu...
After losing by scores of 15-3 to Penn and 19-5 to Princeton and barely beating bottom-dwellers such as Columbia and Brown by two and one goal, respectively last season, the women’s team has started to challenge the top teams in the country. Four weeks ago the squad lost just 14-10 to Penn, a team that this past weekend beat three-time reigning national champions Northwestern, 11-7. Harvard lost 18-9 to No. 2 Princeton after playing neck-and-neck for the entire first half...
Participants will attend panel workshops and listen to distinguished speakers from politics, business, and academia. Past speakers have included Former President of South Korea Kim Dae-jung and Columbia Economics professor Jeffrey D. Sachs...