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...knew it would face a tough fight-the Upper House members whose seats are in contention were elected in 2001, when an unusually large number of LDP candidates rode the coattails of popular Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi into office. But no one could have predicted the litany of disasters that have beset Abe over the past two months, including the suicide of one minister under a cloud of corruption (Agriculture Minister Toshikatsu Matsuoka), the resignation of another (Defense Minister Fumio Kyuma) for a foolish remark on the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, and worst of all, the pension crisis...
...learned so much from writing this book. I went into it thinking that I knew so much. After all, I had had so much practice! But people respond in such different ways, and you can learn from that. It certainly made the book richer to hear how people were able to cope so creatively with their bad news...
...source, took his own life. "Campbell won his battle with the BBC," says veteran journalist turned p.r. man Michael Prescott, "but you look round after the battle and find you?re standing in a charred field." After a judicial inquiry cleared Campbell, he quickly left Downing Street. "I knew I had to get out," he says. "I was in charge of the media operation and my relations with the media were poison...
...stares in the U.S. and other parts of the world, here in Nanjing, where he was giving a speech in late June, practically everyone had heard of him. Almost the entire sample of people I spoke to before the event, from a PR firm manager to a factory electrician, knew who Jixinge...
...more than a year, Vatican insiders knew Benedict was keen to ease restrictions on the Tridentine mass. Indeed, in the first months of his papacy, he'd met with leaders of the "schismatic" followers of the late ultratraditionalist Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, who'd split with the Vatican over the introduction of the vernacular and other Vatican II reforms. In his explanatory letter, Benedict says this decree alone will not heal the rift, which is on "a deeper level." So the Pope seems to be showing the ultratraditionalists - who want to undo all the Vatican II reforms - that he will move...