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...Okamoto, members of a freshman class of 26 female DPJ lawmakers include Kayoko Isogai, a temp worker who was unemployed when she stood for election, and Mieko Tanaka, a former secretary and actress who had a small role in an erotic horror film, Blind Beast vs. Killer Dwarf. The group has been criticized for being little more than pretty faces unqualified to hold public office. During campaigning, some newspapers dubbed them "Ozawa's princesses" because most were recruited to run for parliament by Ichiro Ozawa, the DPJ's 67-year-old secretary general and chief election strategist. By running...
Several mid-level regional officials have been suspended for corruption since Zuma came to power. But Zuma has missed other chances to pursue the guilty. In May, Transport Minister S'bu Ndebele was found to have accepted a $125,000 Mercedes from a road-construction group that had more than $50 million in contracts with the department. Though Ndebele handed the car back, along with two cows, Zuma told him he had no need to. In June, an auditor general's report accused 2,000 senior civil servants of rigging contracts worth $75 million to themselves or relatives between...
Snow. Christmas. Finals. Caffeine abuse. It's that wonderful time of the year, when festive feelings and familiar traditions abound (maybe). The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra feels no less celebratory, but the group decided to put a unique spin on a timeless custom...
...they heard suddenly. The two looked up at a group of men around their age. Austin was a more liberal part of Texas than most, but the two began to worry. They hadn’t encountered any homophobia until now in their time together—was their love going to be challenged the very night they got engaged? One of the men standing above them spoke...
...October 24, I attended a service day at Shubow Park in Brighton to repair a playground that had been neglected for some time. The service day had not been arranged by PBHA or one of the many community-service groups on campus, but instead by one of the U.S. Senate candidates running to fill the seat of Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56: Alan A. Khazei ’83. Working in the park that afternoon revealed to me what an innovative and unique campaign Khazei was running—one that wasn?...