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...Arguing that today's financial market chaos came out of nowhere will be key to Myerson's case. While Pointer, his lawyer, claimed in court recent events were indeed "unforeseeable and unforeseen", Nicholas Mostyn, representing Myerson's ex-wife, hit back that "the present downturn was totally foreseeable and indeed well under way" at the time of the couple's settlement a year ago. Moreover, Mostyn argued, as a fund manager, Brian Myerson knew as well as anyone that shares can go up as well as well as down. "He agreed in exchange for having a majority of the assets...
...Sophomore Agnes Sibilski and senior Beier Ko carried their match 8-6. With the score tied 5-5 and the Crimson leading 40-30, a key play came when Ko broke BC’s serve with a volley down the center of the court, splitting the Eagles pair...
...Ozawa's analysis of what needs to be done is clear. There is, he recognizes, "no going back to the traditional system ... We have to incorporate free competition as well as the market mechanism into the lifelong-employment system." The key to success is to rely less on exports and more on domestic demand - a prescription that, a DPJ policy document says tartly, "has been on the table for the past 20 years." But Ozawa recognizes that to encourage the Japanese to shop rather than stash their cash in safety-deposit boxes, something more than exhortation is needed. "We have...
...Right now, the key challenges facing Japan are domestic. The Japanese, in a funk since the bubble burst, know that things cannot go on like they have. "Japanese people wish for a fundamental change, but there's no one to vote for," says Tomoaki Iwai, a professor of political science at Nihon University in Tokyo. Koll says that "the real question is whether politics can be sexy again for the younger generation - something that you actually want to be involved with, not only because it affects your life but affects your future...
...clash with China over Taiwan, being able to bottle up Chinese subs at their base - and measuring the range from their base within which U.S. technology could be used to hunt them before they escape into the open sea, where they would be much more difficult to detect - are key U.S. intelligence goals. The data collected by vessels like the Impeccable, along with detailed maps of the ocean floor near the Chinese base that would guide U.S. sub hunters, are funneled into massive U.S. Navy databases that are invaluable in time of war. (The Impeccable joined three U.S. carriers...