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...Paralysis isn't unique to Japan; it appears to be a common affliction throughout the developed world. But by looking at Japan, we can get a good idea of the damage it can do. Unwilling to make hard choices, the government simply threw taxpayer money around, attempting to keep people employed without fundamentally changing the economy. The result is government debt approaching 200% of GDP. Overly protected at home, Japan Inc. has missed out on the globalization game; its companies, unable to adapt to a changing world, are losing global market share to more nimble competitors. The nation that once...
...tries to keep up with contemporary writers - most of whom also write on uncontroversial subjects, like 20-somethings agonizing over exams, relationships and the like. But Mo Yan says that it's "impossible" for him to enjoy their work. "I won't write those types of novels," he explains, "but I do understand there are reasons for their existence." Mo Yan quite unabashedly says that the desire to escape poverty was the initial reason for the existence of his novels but he adds that it has long been supplanted. "Now that I can afford dumplings, why am I still writing...
...felt as if we'd been punched in the stomach. But with the help of family and friends, we marshaled the resources to fight to keep our only sizable asset, our home...
...Bill Clinton and Clinton's disastrous pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich, needs no lesson on the pitfalls of his position. But Holder enjoys a personal relationship with Obama that he never had with Clinton - and that makes the job harder, not easier. It may also help him keep...
...attacks on Holder are coming so fast, it's hard to keep track of the complaints. Republicans criticize him on the one hand for Mirandizing the Christmas Day bomber and on the other for asserting, as he did on March 16, that the U.S. would kill Osama bin Laden rather than capture and interrogate him. But Holder says he's adhering to principles he adopted over the years as an unforgiving criminal prosecutor. And it's Holder's experience in the law-enforcement system that makes him such a strong believer in its ability to put terrorists like KSM away...