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...first, said, oh, this won't affect us," says Genkichi Kon, who operated a snack shop inside the plant. "But gradually, one by one, people were restructured [translation: fired]." Two other factories have also closed. "People in our town are spending their savings for their everyday life," says Yahaba mayor, Mitsuro Kawamura, echoing a trend the government reported in January: the jobless are now dipping into their savings accounts to make ends meet...
Grasping the scope of Silvio Berlusconi's conflict-of-interest problem requires a hypothetical analogy. Parallels in the real world simply don't exist. Business media mogul Michael Bloomberg becoming mayor of New York, for example, is small polenta compared to the Italian Prime Minister owning his country's three major private television networks. Imagine instead Bloomberg as majority shareholder in both CBS and NBC making a successful run for the U.S. presidency - and then refusing to give up his stake in the networks once he moved into the White House...
...week on the way home from school in Salt Lake City when his classmates would turn off to go to the nearby Mormon church and he would continue on straight to go home. Goldsmith, now 47, is the city planner for Salt Lake City, hired by the controversial new mayor, Rocky Anderson, to revitalize the downtown area, block strip-mall developments and open up bike trails and green spaces in the city. But his agenda is broader than that. "We are working on cultural change in a big way," says Goldsmith, a sculptor and former activist who developed affordable housing...
...Goleman were looking for a textbook example of emotionally intelligent leadership, he couldn't do better than former Mayor Rudy Giuliani of New York City after Sept. 11. As important as what Giuliani said was how he said it. "When people were feeling threatened and anxious, he did everything he could to make you feel that someone was actually in control," Goleman told TIME. "He was in touch with his feelings--and our feelings...
...TAIWAN Scandalous The tawdry tale now gripping Asia is of a former mayor who secretly filmed his ex-girlfriend having sex with another man. A friend then sold the tape to a tabloid, which gave copies to readers in December. Last week, prosecutors filed invasion-of-privacy charges against Tsai Jen-Chien, Kuo Yu-Ling and nine newspaper staffers. The ex-girlfriend, reporter-turned-politician Chu Mei-Feng, published a tell-all book last week and has topped Web portal Lycos' list of most popular search terms for two weeks...