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...members to 308 of 480 seats in the Japanese parliament's lower house, voters ended a half-century of nearly unbroken rule by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) - providing an unprecedented rebuke to the country's political élite, at the same time issuing a mandate for lawmakers with fresh ideas to address Japan's protracted economic malaise and growing societal ills. (Read "Will an Opposition Victory Rescue Japan's Economy...
...dream will come crashing, if Natalie (Anna Kendrick) has her way. Fresh out of business school, with a psychology minor, she sells the company president (Jason Bateman) a scheme to save millions of dollars in air and hotel bills: just fire people from the home office, over a picture-phone device like iChat. Ryan is stricken. Natalie's plan threatens not his job - he can stay in Omaha, Neb., and make the kill calls - but his way of life. No more first-class treatment; no familiar salutations from hotel clerks and flight attendants who are his equivalent of friends...
Former Dean of the Law School Elena Kagan—fresh from her first appearance before the Supreme Court—appeared before a rapturous crowd at the Law School on Friday where she described her recent experiences in Washington and was lauded by her HLS colleagues. Kagan, the current solicitor general, appeared on a panel with her successor as Dean, Martha L. Minow; Professor Charles Fried, a former Solicitor General under President Reagan; and Professor John F. Manning ’82, who worked in the solicitor general’s office in the early 1990s. Kagan?...
Every house comes together in its own way. Pfoho, with its remote location, unpronounceable name, and endangered polar bear mascot, is a bit more conscious of its shortcomings than most (or so it seems to this chauvinistic Cabot cod). But its hardy residents, fresh off the shuttle, are happy to celebrate them...
...quick. As a Western diplomat in Harare says: "We used to say we want elections. But Tsvangirai says he needs time to build institutions, and he's right. As we've seen in Zimbabwe, elections with the present institutions are no guarantee of change." In 2008, Mugabe unleashed a fresh wave of repression against the MDC after losing a general election, violence that ultimately prolonged his rule. The fervent hope among the MDC's impatient supporters is that change will precede the death of the old tyrant, who is visibly frail these days, but whose demise might still be years...