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...interview with TIME in Tokyo, Ichiro Ozawa, the leader of the opposition Democratic Party of Japan and the front runner to be Japan's next Prime Minister (if he can avoid the fallout from a scandal over political fundraising), said "giving a sense of security to the population" was key to economic recovery. Ozawa argues that only if families feel that their basic needs have been taken care of - needs like health care and provision for retirement - will they go out and spend money on new cars and clothes. There's a lesson for the U.S. there too. Health-care...
Japan can play a key part in getting growth going again. But that will require it to change, to expand its domestic economy rather than rely, as it has long done, on its exports...
...Crimson Key and Unofficial Tours...
...said Afghanistan needed better trained and equipped armed forces to maintain domestic order, though he expressed concerns that funding for military training could end up aiding warlords and narco-traffickers if not carefully targeted. Negotiating with the Taliban, a group that continues to engage in terrorist activities, was another key plank of Jawad’s platform. Jawad said the government could successfully fight the Taliban’s influence by winning over its impoverished members, many of whom subsist on less than $300 a day—a figure the government could easily double. The nation?...
...right approach in a lot of ways, but I’m not sure that it’s argued that it’s a moral approach.”This refusal to judge what is morally correct is, for Walker, another of the play’s key attractions. “My ideal situation would be people walking out of the theatre thinking, ‘Who do I align with?’” she says. As for the attitude of the play, she says “It’s not quite...