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...early February poll, down from nearly 70% when he took office in September, and for the first time more people disapproved of him than approved. After early diplomatic successes in China and South Korea, scandals and controversies have entangled several top administration officials. There's growing doubt about his passion for carrying out economic and political reforms initiated by his predecessor Junichiro Koizumi, and his own advisers privately admit that the Prime Minister-who often seems scripted and ill at ease in public-is suffering in comparison to the remarkably mediagenic Koizumi. It doesn't help that Abe's young...
...Imagining a New NATO In Light of the Global Threat of Terrorism, Walter Isaacson asked, "What would George Marshall and Dean Acheson be doing now?" [Feb. 5]. Isaacson suggested that they might be forging a Mideast Antiterrorism Organization (MATO) whose members would include Israel and Iraq. I doubt it. I rather suspect that Marshall and Acheson would be saying they told us so. Both men were vehemently opposed to the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine because they recognized that it was immoral and that it would open up a can of worms that would haunt the region...
...figure that, coming from the cerebral Roberts, the argument probably makes sense. The court, after all, wisely achieved unanimity in Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark school-desegregation decision that left no doubt about what the law should be. By contrast, the splintered ruling in Bush v. Gore suggested that partisanship rather than the law guided the court's resolution of the 2000 presidential election...
...joined the court's majority in denying journalists an exemption from testifying before a grand jury. But in a separate opinion, he offered an alternative--a test balancing press freedom against the obligation to testify--that many courts used to keep reporters off the witness stand. The opinion no doubt encouraged sources to speak and so allowed us all to become better informed...
...education program should teach, when such agreement is precisely what contemporary society lacks. Writing in their book, “General Education in a Free Society,” the authors of the 1945 curricular reform at Harvard lamented: “As recently as a century ago no doubt existed about [the] purpose [of general education]: it was to train the Christian citizen…[But] this enviable certainty has largely disappeared...