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...Perpetuating the family business doesn't get at the real challenges facing Japan. But rather than combat the country's complex problems - stagnating wages, a widening income gap, a shifting global balance of power - many politicians seem intent on replaying ancient political battles. And it's not just a Bush here or a Kennedy there: roughly one-third of Japan's sitting parliamentarians come from political nobility. Hereditary leadership doesn't just plague the LDP, which has ruled Japan virtually uninterrupted for half a century, but opposition parties as well. Ichiro Ozawa, the head of the Democratic Party of Japan...
...June of this year, typified Hong Kong at its worst. A laughably messianic invitation (issued as a slab of metal bearing the restaurant's name, but with no address or other details enclosed) summoned hundreds of what one would only describe in kindness as "VIPs" to the Landmark commercial complex to toast the new branch of Rainer Becker's Knightsbridge restaurant in a suffocating, five-deep-at-the-bar ordeal. How lovely, then, to return to Zuma some months later and realize that it is not a claustrophobic hellhole of anemic heirs and glassy-eyed "It" girls...
...announced in February, she has not yet announced any specific new initiatives she expects to launch to accomplish her goals. Faust also applied the theme of collectivism to the University’s expansion into Allston. As the University prepares to break ground on the first Allston science complex in the next few months, Faust encouraged her readers to consider future projects on the 215-acre campus as “an investment not merely in one school or another, in this program or that one, but in the common future of an institution whose vitality depends on new intellectual...
Harvard could break ground on the science complex as soon as this fall, pending final approval from Boston officials next month...
These issues are extremely complex, and even well-educated people sometimes lack an understanding of the political complexity and public sacrifices involved in their possible solutions. It’s important we not mistake the current hatred for President Bush as political will to make tough changes. If politicians today can’t even assemble the political will to end agricultural subsidies that give American farmers an unfair edge over farmers in developing countries, what prospect is there for real progress on global climate change, which will involve considerable lifestyle adjustments...