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Certainly the wary, introverted Bonds hasn't helped himself. He refuses to worship in the cathedral where baseball tries to place itself and instead continually refers to the sport as a business. And Bonds is all business. He keeps himself in superb shape and is fanatical about a healthy diet. Most players fade in their mid-30s; he has got better...
Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is used to making other politicians unhappy. But even he seemed shaken when his longtime supporter Mikio Aoki took the floor of the Diet last Tuesday and added his voice to the growing dissension over the Prime Minister's latest round of banking reform proposals. In a withering attack, he accused Koizumi's new finance chief Heizo Takenaka of being a loose cannon, an unelected and unaccountable radical operating outside the system. And he finished with a direct salvo against the man he used to defend, telling Koizumi, "What is lacking most is leadership...
...That was just the opening act of a contentious political drama still playing out on the floor of the Diet, one that may prove the most important showdown of Koizumi's career. The fate of Takenaka and his banking plans has become a critical test of the underwhelming Koizumi era. If Koizumi enacts the package without sacrificing all of its major planks, the path toward sweeping economic reform may have finally begun. If, however, the formidable phalanx of Koizumi's opponents blocks the proposals?or waters them down to the point of irrelevance?then the Prime Minister's credibility...
...those grumblings turned into a revolt. On Tuesday morning, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) heavyweights Mitsuo Horiuchi, Taro Aso and Taku Yamasaki vowed to intervene. While Koizumi briefed the emperor at the Imperial Palace that evening, the three leaders and other LDP bosses confronted Takenaka behind closed doors in the Diet building. Takenaka left the meeting looking visibly pale. "This was poor leadership from Koizumi," says Mamoru Yamazaki, chief economist at Barclays Capital Management. "Takenaka was accused by the leading politicians of the Diet, and the Prime Minister wasn't protecting him." That evening, Takenaka said the publication of his plan...
Others echo Vaidya’s enthusiasm at the enlarged diet options...