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...unusually low profile. The German newspaper Bild, quoting Graf's mother Hannah, says the couple are expecting a boy sometime in early November. They might want to sock away some of that tennis prize money for any future shrink bills. Having just one tennis parent has been known to mess up a few kids...
...Asia's governments to ease the pain would be to finish cleaning up the mess left over from the 1997 debacle. In Thailand, many companies that ran into problems still haven't repaid their loans, leaving banks unwilling to lend to more viable firms. Korea has done more to reform its profligate ways but the government still props up sick companies with state funds, discouraging the kind of restructuring that would create more competitive businesses. Taiwan sailed through the crisis in 1997, but it is now reckoning with a Thai-style banking fiasco, albeit a less serious one. Taiwanese banks...
...well hang up his gloves. But this is Japan 2001?and this is Koizumi, who has turned bad news into political capital. He swept into power in April by telling Japanese voters what they already knew but rarely heard from their leaders: that their country was an economic mess. Yes, he pledged to clean it up?by getting rid of bad bank loans, privatizing government-run behemoths like the postal service and killing useless public-works projects. But he also warned that it would hurt at first: salaries would shrink, jobs disappear. Now, he's retelling that tale of gloom...
...Mount in Judaism and as the Noble Sanctuary in Islam, the site has a tremendous importance in all three of the world’s monotheistic religions, although contemporary arguments about sovereignty over the site mainly involve the Israelis and the Palestinians. The story of the site is a mess of competing religious claims, conflicting historical narratives and violent reactions to seemingly sinister symbolic actions. Some popular media accounts blame this issue as the straw that broke the camel’s back at last summer’s failed Camp David talks, and Ariel Sharon’s controversial...
...Megahistory and personal history never integrate. Even the assault on Pearl has a curiously abstract air about it. Authentic figures such as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Jon Voight), Doolittle (Alec Baldwin) and heroic black mess attendant Doris "Dorie" Miller (Cuba Gooding Jr.) appear in supporting roles, and the backdrop reaches for historical accuracy?at least until it gets in the way of the main story...