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...would be a good start. Right now, for example, bank managers need never fear for their jobs no matter how poorly they perform; that's because extensive cross-ownership between banks and affiliated companies minimizes publicly available shares, making corporate takeovers, especially by foreigners, exceedingly difficult. Shielded from competition, lame banks are free to limp along with little incentive to reform. Another example strikes right at the heart of the country's pocketbooks. Using the dubious justification that the nation's food supply needs to be more "self-sufficient," Japan's inefficient agricultural sector has successfully lobbied for tariffs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan's Deflation Dogfight | 2/24/2003 | See Source »

...roses and chocolates are not in the Valentine’s Day cards this year, fear not. While the Harvard dating scene is decidedly lame, life won’t always be this way, at least not if the modern-day yentas at It’s Just Lunch have anything to do about...

Author: By Angela M. Salvucci, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Let's Do Lunch | 2/13/2003 | See Source »

When Donaldson eventually does take command, he could find that most of the commission's important post-Enron decisions have already been made--and by a lame duck. --By Adam Zagorin

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Lame Duck's Revenge | 2/3/2003 | See Source »

...this leaves South Korea's laureate leader as the lamest of lame ducks, tarnished by scandal and failure. His once promising legacy now seems more suited to an epitaph: Money can't buy you love?or peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cost of Sunshine | 2/3/2003 | See Source »

...that it holds a sleeping woman. She agrees to be his wife, but upon discovering that he has hidden her jar, she disappears. Searching for his wife, the fisherman finds her captured by a demon warrior and must rescue her with the aid of a cowardly elephant and a lame ox. Full of adventure, romance and magic, "The Yellow Jar" and its companion story, "Two Chrysanthemum Maidens," about of a pair of flower sisters who take up residence in a monk's prized garden, couldn't be more delightful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newer; Faster; Better | 1/30/2003 | See Source »

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