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...Doing what Papa or Grandpa preached would be fine if it made sense to Japanese voters. But look at what happened to Abe, grandson of a nationalist ex-Premier. He blamed his resignation on the opposition for having stymied his efforts to continue Japanese refueling of American ships involved in the U.S.-led war on terror. Abe, like his grandfather, was intent on strengthening Japan's military ties with the U.S. But the Japanese public had already deserted Abe, not because of his foreign policy but over his inability to address fundamental economic issues. Harping on a faraway military operation...
Buying at these moments of acute uncertainty takes an emotional toll. Guy Spier, a friend who runs a hedge fund in New York, says he's bought several battered stocks lately, knowing that "You make your money in the panics, then collect it when everything is fine again." But "it's agonizingly difficult," he admits. "The rational part of your brain is struggling with all these emotions, which are telling you: 'This company is going bust...
...between sacred burial grounds and monuments. Now the environment is so protected in these national parks that we had 350 rangers watching every move if we step on one indigenous plant." Hollywood has also lost its teeming cavalry of saddle-up stars and stuntmen. Peter Fonda, who directed the fine western The Hired Hand in the 1970s and appears in the new Yuma, recalls that before shooting began, "they had what's called cowboy camp. A lot of the younger actors hadn't shot a pistol, didn't know how to ride horse. You know, it's hard to make...
...started months before Walsh took control. As soon as the OFT informed BA in mid-2006 that it was investigating the company, the airline cooperated with the investigations. (Virgin, whose legal team first contacted the OFT about the scheming once it got wind of the problem, should escape any fine as a result.) Still, it's hardly reassuring that staff at BA thought it a smart idea to collude with the company's fiercest rival. Is there a problem with values at the carrier? "That wasn't anything that was in the dna" of the company, says Walsh...
...noted that polls showed 60 percent of Iraqis welcomed Americans after the U.S. invasion, but that 60 percent now think it fine to kill U.S. troops...