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...Shannon voted for a President, it was for a Republican, Ronald Reagan, and the year was 1980. This time, the 42-year-old former U.S. special-forces soldier, who has lived in Japan for the past seven years, will be casting his ballot for Democrat John Kerry. Shannon is eager to vote because he thinks President George W. Bush has mishandled the Iraq war. But Shannon is doing much more than exercising his own civil rights: he's also helped register some 200 other Tokyo-based Americans and is leading a group of them to Florida, the state that narrowly...
While Rabbi Kudan was once an active member of Harvard Hillel, he now declares that he is no longer eager to return. He said, however, that faculty members still ask him to lead bar mitzvahs and funerals even though he no longer works for Harvard...
...Some say the King is tired of this political mess and is now eager for one of his favored sons, Prince Norodom Sihamoni, 51, to take the throne. Sihanouk cannot choose his own heir?a task that falls to a nine-member Throne Council, which can choose from dozens of eligible princes. Ranariddh has a seat on the council, but it is still dominated by Hun Sen's allies. Political analyst Chea Vannath says that Sihanouk, by making his favorite clear, may hope to nudge the council to choose Sihamoni as a way to prevent further political battles after...
...eager to raise its profile in the business community, however, by passing out information-packed CD-ROMs at trade shows and signing up thousands of executives to receive e-mail updates on new technologies available for licensing. But the driving force isn't cash; ARS collects a mere $2 million a year from royalties. Rather, ARS offers companies exclusive production rights so that the firms themselves will cough up the money to bring the products to market. The payoff for America's farmers: every $1 the government spends on agricultural research translates on average into an extra $1.35 in sales...
...Columbia Journalism Review recently noted that neither candidate has been particularly eager to confront the hard facts of energy policy this election season. No surprise there. But at least one thing’s for sure: Until we get serious about energy independence, American foreign policy in the Middle East will continue to be hamstrung at a time we can least afford...