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...Japan and China share a 2,000-year history, and have traded regional dominance back and forth numerous times. With China gathering strength while Japan falters, many Japanese conservatives see little but confrontation ahead. "China is not talking about friendship or an equal footing with Japan, it clearly wants regional leadership," says Yoichiro Sato, an associate professor at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu. "Japanese leaders haven't resigned themselves to this, and they will put up a fight to maintain their influence in the region...
...will have to shift towards some form of per capita allocation of emission rights. Why should someone living in Boston be granted the right to consume more of the global atmosphere than someone living in Bahawalpur? Others have already suggested a system where each individual is allotted an equal “emission space” (to be managed by countries and allocated on a past population level, say 1990 levels). Countries using more than their allocated emissions would have to rent “emission space” from those using less than their allocated emissions. Arguably, this could...
...devolution as a way to lower taxes on the prosperous north. Berlusconi has tried to satisfy these divergent interests by giving something to everyone, including €6 billion in income tax cuts along with increases in public spending. Result: a growing budget shortfall, which the European Commission warns will equal 3.6% of Italy's GDP in 2005, well above euro-zone limits. "Berlusconi wanted to be like Bush, pursuing an expansionist policy by running a deficit," says opposition MP Enrico Letta. Having patched over coalition differences, the PM is playing it safe - he's stopped calling for income tax cuts...
...civil rights movement as a time when federal courts played a key role in integrating public schools. Yet he goes on to say the "courts soon wandered into unlegislated gray areas," and he touts "popular constitutionalism," an oxymoron if I ever heard one. Americans of all stripes deserve equal treatment, irrespective of polling data...
...easy sentiment of the provoker; those who do not confront the audience with equal vigor have betrayed their talents to the desires of the mass...