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...view, the government should focus JAL's operations strictly on the domestic market. Japan has only two main carriers for domestic routes, JAL and All Nippon Airways, but both airlines' international routes have to compete with bigger - and healthier - global carriers. Over the last few years, JAL has continuously cut back on unprofitable international routes, and will continue to do so under its revitalization plan. Today, JAL has roughly three times the number of international routes operated by ANA, but Matsumoto says that if things go according to plan in the next three years, the size of JAL's international...
Still, that's a long way from the climate faced by many gay politicians in America. Opponents of gay candidates there often focus the race on sexuality - and have found that it wins them more votes. Jim Roth, former Oklahoma county commissioner and the state's first publicly elected gay official, says that in 2002, rivals wrongly claimed his partner had AIDS. In 2006, church groups, he says, passed out literature claiming he would "advance the homosexual agenda." In 2008, while running for a post to oversee the state's energy resources, he faced similar attacks and lost. "Their coordinated...
...despite the celebratory mood following the game, the record did not weigh heavily on Kessler’s mind as she switched her focus to Harvard’s upcoming matchups...
...trip to the line temporarily secured Dartmouth’s position as top dog in the Ivy League, while Harvard turns its focus to the south as it travels to Tallahassee for a Thursday game against Florida State, ranked 12th in the nation...
...keeping the focus on Ghazni, the trial will avoid becoming, as human-rights groups had hoped, a referendum on the issue of enforced disappearances. Siddiqui has achieved cult status in much of the Muslim world, where she is a symbol of hundreds of individuals believed to have been "disappeared" in connection with the war on terrorism. Groups like the British-based Reprieve have argued that the practice of enforced disappearances begun under George W. Bush has continued apace under the Obama Administration, and that the use of foreign intelligence to detain and interrogate suspects has in the worst instances amounted...