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...Fukuda's precarious situation makes it especially important that Hu's visit goes smoothly. Since hitting a low point in 2005, when thousands of Chinese staged anti-Japanese protests in major Chinese cities, typically frosty political relations between the two countries have been warming up a bit - and because of China's growing economic power, it's crucial to Tokyo that this trend continues. (China last year surpassed the U.S. as Japan's largest export destination.) Like Abe, Fukuda has avoided angering Beijing by refraining from official visits to the Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japanese war dead, including 14 convicted...
...Farewell to a Hollywood Legend My thanks to Richard Corliss for his essay on Charlton Heston [April 21]. If anyone under 40 wants to know why their older friends and family have such low regard for current Hollywood actors, Heston is one reason. He was a symbol of how America thought of itself: energetic, courageous, practical, resilient. No one in Hollywood can take his place. R.W. Harrington, De Pere...
...work. "It is a well-recognized fact that the system of public delivery of health services in India today is in crisis," begins the paper "Understanding Government Failure in Public Health Services" published in the influential Economic and Political Weekly last October. "Recent analyses show that high absenteeism, low quality in clinical care, low satisfaction with care and rampant corruption plague the system...
...that will mean spending hundreds of billions of dollars more on public health, perhaps even creating a basic national insurance scheme. "Unfortunately there may not be any low-cost solutions," says public-health expert Kumar, who believes current government promises do not go far enough. "India needs to be prepared to spend on health but whenever it's mentioned there's always this debate about cost. Why don't we have the same debate when we spend tens of billions on new arms? It's totally unacceptable to shortchange a system that will save lives." And it's hard...
Farewell to a Hollywood Legend My thanks to Richard Corliss for his essay on Charlton Heston [April 21]. If anyone under 40 wants to know why their older friends and family have such low regard for current Hollywood actors, Heston is one reason. He was a symbol of how America thought of itself: energetic, courageous, practical, resilient. No one in Hollywood can take his place. R.W. Harrington, DE PERE...