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...economic ties between the three nations and the need to coordinate regional responses to future diplomatic crises. That Abe managed to schedule the meetings at all was an impressive achievement, requiring the blue-blooded conservative to dodge toward the ideological center. China and South Korea had cut off most high-level contacts with Japan to protest former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visits to the Yasukuni Shrine war memorial, which they view as a monument to Japanese imperialism. Abe was thought to be even more unrepentant than Koizumi on the issue. Yet he recently told the Diet that his government...
...former Harvard president is now a part-time managing director at New York-based D. E. Shaw Group. Summers, who will take on the new position in addition to his current role as the Eliot University professor, will focus his efforts on “various strategic initiatives and high-level portfolio management activities” at the hedge fund, the firm announced yesterday. Summers, a former secretary of the U.S. Treasury, said his new role will not change his status as a Harvard faculty member. “This is entirely within the context of the normal outside activities...
...Shaw Group announced today that Summers "will be involved on a part-time basis in various strategic initiatives and high-level portfolio management activities...
...high-level Republican strategist which House races they are going to be sweating the most over on election night, and there's one that always comes up in their top two or three: Ohio's 15th district, which consists of most of Columbus and the fast-growing suburbs just west of it. There is no better indicator of whether this congressional election will follow the midterm norm in which voters make their decision based on their loyalties to their individual member of Congress, or whether they will be swept up by a national wave that could wash out the same...
...career politician was elected president by the Knesset's Presidential vote in 2000, a victory as surprising then as his apparent fall from grace has been now. Katsav seems unlikely to escape indictment and, if his case does go to trial, could face imprisonment. His is hardly the first high-level political scandal in Israel: Several past presidents, cabinet ministers and prime ministers have been investigated for financial improprieties; ex-Justice Minister Haim Ramon resigned this past August after being indicted for sexual harassment. But that won't lessen the sting for Olmert, who has seen his support nosedive this...