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...eight, his parents divorced. After he nearly failed the fifth grade, his mother moved swiftly to intervene. She sharply restricted television viewing time for him and his older brother Curtis and required them to submit weekly reports on books they had read (Carson's first: Chip the Dam Builder). It wasn't until years later that the brothers learned that their mother, who left school after third grade, could barely read what they wrote...
...megabits per second is roughly 35 times as fast as conventional modems. Each customer pays $18 a month for the service; the municipality covered the installation costs of nearly $345,000. It can afford to: Modalen earns more than $2 million a year from the nearby hydroelectric dam...
...adore him and young people think his brashness is kakkoii, or cool. His guri-guri-ing of the political establishment, however, is proving to be a more strenuous task than an assignation with Mrs. U at the Hyatt. The ldp hacks in Nagano have overruled his plan to stop dam construction and rammed through their own budget. (Even though Tanaka is Governor, they still hold the majority power in the prefectural legislature.) That's a lesson Prime Minister Koizumi in Tokyo might learn when his honeymoon ends. Promising change in Japan is undeniably popular these days. Making it happen...
...that he has to make use of that popularity to bring the recalcitrant bureaucrats on board and to convince his legislative opponents that they'd be fools to stand in the way of a popular Governor. In March, lawmakers brutally destroyed his plan to stop construction of the Shimosuwa dam. There wasn't a thing Tanaka could do about it but grouse. "The general contractors and construction companies think that more highways and bridges will bring on prosperity and recovery," he fumes. "But ordinary people are just annoyed...
...Japan Alps of 7,300, to see him. "They say I'm a dictator," he said, drawing laughter and applause from the adoring crowd, which listened for three hours as he railed against the prefectural legislators, the $13 million of debt the Nagano government has piled up, the dam projects and his attempts to hire more teachers and provide more services for the handicapped. Then he told a story about a bakery run by mentally disabled entrepreneurs. The story provoked tears?though a whole lot were from Tanaka himself...