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...implementing the reforms quickly and effectively," says Gibney. Hashimoto will stay in office until the LDP appoints a successor. The leading candidate right now is Foreign Minister Keizo Obuchi, who's known as a consensus builder rather than a Teddy Roosevelt. "The LDP needs a consensus to govern," says Gibney. "The fact that Hashimoto had views of his own had stalled the reform process." Japan's markets initially plummeted on the election results, but the Nikkei closed up 1.68 percent after it became clear that Hashimoto was taking the fall. In the absence of strong leadership, a prime minister...
...remained an individualist, and the movement passed him by. In his last years his libertarianism hardened. He came out for gay rights, including in the military, and opposed controls on abortion. When Republicans attacked President Clinton about Whitewater, Goldwater told them to "get off his back and let him govern...
...other negotiators eventually realized that the Republicans' basic goal was "being able to say they could govern...
...labor practices in the Western mass consciousness today. The typical, and virtually universal, Western response to issues relating to child labor is advocating a blanket ban on such practices. Unfortunately, such a reaction, while completely understandable and certainly well intentioned, often overlooks the complexity of the underlying issues which govern labor market conditions in poorer countries. In fact, these bans are counterproductive to the extent that they may harm the very segments of society which they aim to protect: The trouble with a blanket ban on the use of child labor, for example, is that it will never make...
...lesson of this fiasco has been that the Office of the President has been exposed as incredibly vulnerable. Jones has demonstrated that a single person armed with shallow, dubious accusations and backed by wealthy, politically-motivated contributors can distract our chief executive and nearly cripple his ability to govern...