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...promising "super luck forever" b) inviting people to his 110th birthday party c) asking people to fill out a consumer-spending survey...
...Makiko Tanaka (no relation to the Nagano Governor), are the most visible examples from within the ldp. But outsiders are making inroads too. In March, an independent woman defeated candidates representing Japan's two major parties to become Governor of Chiba prefecture. Last fall, in a special election to fill a seat in the Lower House of the Diet, Japan's parliament, outsider Etsuko Kawada defeated the major party candidates. Governors with an independent streak are starting to stand up to the national government. Nationalist novelist Shintaro Ishihara, Governor of Tokyo, imposed a controversial local tax on banks last year...
...particular, for rebel Prime Minister Koizumi. Can Tanaka show the way in Nagano? Or will he prove to be a flash in the pan, a trifling, inconsequential political buffoon? Sure, he is clever enough to feed the public what it wants to hear. In Nagano, they'd had their fill of pricey public-works projects, so they applauded Tanaka's decision to stop the building of dams...
...played a part in the disturbing statistics. When my daughter and I sat down at the kitchen table last year to fill out the Census form, we reported as one of the 7.2% of American households headed by a single mother. I've been a single mother for so long that I've stopped thinking about it, but now that the numbers are out, the backlash has begun. We are dysfunctional. Our home is broken. We are at risk and vulnerable. America is going to hell in a handbasket, and we are holding the basket--confounding the eternal American happy...
...other hand, the generals may be quite happy to see a week president, because that would give them more power. The military is going to move to fill any political vacuum that arises, and nobody believes that Megawati will last very long. And waiting for her to fail are, on the one hand, ambitious politicians like parliamentary speaker Amien Rais, and on the other hand, the generals...