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...departure (it really is time to throw out those popped collars, guys). One of Svestka’s first recruits was co-captain Nicholas B. Snow ’09, who conveniently came with his polo-loving father and new coach, Snow the elder. According to Janice C. Jun ’07, the director of the club, polo is typically Harvardian in the complexity of its rules. “It’s a very intellectual sport,” she says. An intellectual sport, and an expensive one—members of the club must pay forty...
...reported changes to “random variations in cigarette nicotine yields, both upwards and downwards.” But the researchers said that the increase in nicotine yield over the period studied was statistically significant and not due to random variation. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Jun. 2000 that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not have the authority to regulate the tobacco industry, including nicotine levels. But Sen. Edward Kennedy ’54 (D-Mass.), incoming chairman of the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, indicated last week that he plans...
...labor minister and former political prisoner, won by 1,114 votes, just .14% of the total 767,868 ballots cast. She had trailed in opinion polls in the weeks before the election and acknowledged that the corruption allegations involving the President were an obstacle. KMT candidate Huang Jun-ying, a former university official, made corruption a key issue. But he was stung by election eve accusations of vote-buying by his campaign. Huang denied the allegations and demanded a recount; on Sunday a Kaohsiung court approved the request, meaning it could be months before the final outcome is known. Meanwhile...
...Taiwanese nationalism. But unlike more rural parts of the south, DPP support in Kaohsiung is uneven. While the DPP's Frank Hsieh won mayoral elections in 1998 and 2002, his KMT challenger in the last race, a 64-year-old former university administrator and onetime deputy mayor named Huang Jun-ying, nearly handed him an upset. This year, Huang is back, with a campaign emphasizing economic development and clean government. Hsieh isn't: he cannot seek another term in Kaohsiung and is pursuing the Taipei mayoral seat instead. Polls show KMT candidate Huang leading Chen Chu by about three...
...that North Korea had kidnapped Japanese nationals, including Megumi Yokota, Abe became the face of Tokyo's response. When a group of surviving abductees visited Japan, Abe insisted they not return to the North. "From then on he was very popular on TV and among the general public," says Jun Iio, professor of government at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies. This July, when North Korea test-fired missiles, Abe pushed for economic sanctions, and hinted that Japan needed to develop offensive capabilities to ensure its self-defense. The crisis proved a breaking point for Japan's traditional pacifist...