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...Right has wrestled the policy debate over to its side of the ring, and many perfectly sensible policies are now strictly off limits for any Democrat who hopes to get elected—which is most of them. Desperate to dodge the “liberal” label, Kerry has been boxed into a corner (if you’ll pardon the mixed metaphor). And unless the Republican-imposed taboos can be broken, the country may soon be on the ropes...
...trillion of deficits the Congressional Budget Office projects for the decade, Kerry’s promise to repeal Bush’s tax cuts for the top two percent of households is a step in the direction of fiscal sanity. But he knows the Republicans would label him a tax-hiking liberal if he touched the rest of the tax cuts. In fact, in order to avoid being written off as the Second Coming of Dukakis, the Kerry campaign has proposed $225 billion in new middle-income tax cuts...
It’s tempting to just say Democrats should grow some cajones and confront the right-wing taboos head on. But until Americans look beyond the “liberal” label, there’s not a lot Democratic politicians can do about the Right’s knuckle-headed policies. And if voters don’t get informed, our rude awakening is going to arrive, sooner or later, in the form of a national economic smackdown...
Whether or not the label fits, more and more women--and not just celebrities like Madonna, actress Kate Hudson and Live with Regis & Kelly co-host Kelly Ripa--are taking charge of their childbearing these days and avoiding the vagaries of natural births. Around the world, rates of caesarean sections are soaring, far surpassing the recommendation by the World Health Organization (WHO) that C-sections make up less than 15% of all births and less than 9.5% in wealthy, Westernized nations. In England, 22% of all babies are born by C-section. In Italy, the rate has climbed from...
Indeed, Minoru would prefer that Mori Building not be seen as a family company, even though his and his older brother Kei's immediate families own 100% of the stock. He dislikes the label because his mission diverges from what he considers the standard priorities of a family-run firm. "What we are doing is not to make money for the family," he says, "but to create something that contributes to the society." --By Jim Frederick. With reporting by Yuki Oda/Tokyo