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Without a clear kingmaker, the offstage plots, subplots and counterplots are so intricate that no one can be sure who's on top. Or even that some new actor isn't ready to steal the spotlight. "Anybody could be chosen," concludes LDP Diet member Katsuei Hirasawa. For example, Junichiro Koizumi, head of the Mori faction and radical reformer, could jump in once his boss fizzles out. Or Chikage Ogi, a former actress who is now head of the New Conservative Party, could emerge as a candidate...
...senior LDP leader?not Aoki, not Nonaka, not Koizumi?wants to become Prime Minister just now. Forget about the jostling that appears to be going on. Sure, the party wants Mori out because he is such an embarrassment. But there is an election for the Upper House of the Diet scheduled for July 29. If the LDP bombs out as expected, an LDP Prime Minister, who also heads the party, would have to resign to take responsibility. This means whoever succeeds Mori will probably serve as Prime Minister for a very short time, basically a cameo role. Who wants...
...play is winding down for Mori and the LDP big shots. They need to shove an essential budget bill through the lower house of the Diet by March 2. After that, it will be time for Mori to exit the stage. By March 13, when the LDP holds a general meeting, Mori will?somehow, some way?be deposed. And a successor will be selected. But as usual the work will have been done in private, at expensive restaurants?behind those decorative screens. Says Kenji Gato, a senior political reporter in Tokyo: "When the curtain is raised on the LDP meeting...
Without Pluto, the minds of a generation of schoolchildren raised on a steady diet of nine planets would go hungry. What will happen to the familiar "My Very Energetic Mother Just Served Us Nine..." Nine what? Kuiper Belt objects? No good mother would serve her children those...
Officials are awaiting the results of laboratory tests on a contaminated bottle of Diet Coke that made a University employee ill last Thursday, according to Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) spokesperson Peggy A. McNamara...