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...Getting along with my roommate.” “A comp I’m comping..” “Not being able to taste every kind of cereal in Annenberg.” “Seeing grades lower than the ones I usually receive.” “Destroying...
...with years of feckless political leadership, handed power to the DPJ in a landslide victory that Hatoyama called "the first ever proper change in government in the history of our constitutional politics." Indeed, by electing DPJ members to 308 of 480 seats in the Japanese parliament's lower house, voters ended a half-century of nearly unbroken rule by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) - providing an unprecedented rebuke to the country's political élite, at the same time issuing a mandate for lawmakers with fresh ideas to address Japan's protracted economic malaise and growing societal ills. (Read "Will...
Philandering spouses across France have been frantically pounding the Delete button on their phones this summer, after the country's highest appeals court ruled that steamy text messages are admissible as evidence in divorce cases. The judgment overturned a lower court's refusal to consider "Dear Pookie" messages as proof of a man's unfaithfulness because--are you sitting down for this, ladies?--doing so would have violated his right to privacy. The appellate court ruled that the texts could be used since they were not "obtained by violence or fraud." (The wife found them on a phone her husband...
Modern Japan is not known for embracing radical change. But in elections to the lower house of Japan's parliament on Aug. 30, voters swept out of power the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which had ruled Japan for all but 11 months of the past half-century. The opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) won 308 of the 480 Diet seats at stake...
...With the center-left opposition all but nonexistent in Italy's Parliament, everyone is on the lookout for potential Judases within the ruling majority's ranks. And as far as the Italian media are concerned, Gianfranco Fini, president of Parliament's lower house, is filling that role nicely. The local paper in Bologna, Il Resto del Carlino, like others in Italy, offers daily updates on a brewing feud between Berlusconi and Fini, the most powerful right-wing politician from this traditionally left-leaning city. Last week, Fini demanded "more democracy" within the center-right coalition and lashed out at Berlusconi...