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...foreign-policy drum without acknowledging the primary cause of his dismal approval ratings. On Sept. 9, while hobnobbing with other international leaders at this year's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Sydney, Japan's Premier laid down a surprising ultimatum: he would resign if parliament did not extend legislation allowing the Japanese navy to refuel American ships supporting military operations in Afghanistan past a Nov. 1 deadline. Abe argued that the DPJ's opposition to the naval commitment would only reinforce Japan's image as an immature global power unwilling to pull its weight. Ozawa retorted that the mission...
...even as Asian countries extend one hand in an embrace, they keep the other behind their back, clenching a gun. Despite Beijing's attempts to reassure other governments, its growing economic and military might frightens its more open neighbors. Given China's opaque politics, leaders still cannot predict whether Beijing will prove benign or threatening. Average people, too, reflect this mistrust. In the latest survey by the Pew Global Attitudes Project, a majority of people in only two Asian nations surveyed had favorable opinions of China, and one of those two was ... China...
...want you to extend your heart to them and understand that they’re having a bad night tonight,” he said. “We’ve been there, and we’d better respect that...
...don’t know the answer to that, and that’s definitely one of the top areas that we want to go in our research,” Austin said. “What we need to be able to do is to extend the protective effect to boys as well.” Approximately 4 percent of both girls and boys in the control group reported taking up unhealthy weight control behavior during the two-year study. Though such behaviors do not necessarily indicate that a child has an eating disorder, they often presage full-blown...
...increased time available for recruiting high school students, the admissions office hopes to broaden the Harvard applicant pool by reaching out to schools in low-income areas, Fitzsimmons said. Another goal of eliminating the early admissions programs is to push the application process later into the senior year and extend the high school experience, he said. However, institutions must consider both what is in the public’s best interest and what is in the institution’s best interest when addressing the question of early admissions, Fitzsimmons said. Fitzsimmons added that even if other schools have...