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Single calls are stopping plays, shifting momentum, and changing outcomes...
...Forming a team is one thing. Winning is another. The question is whether Abe?having "plucked the low-hanging fruit," as Kingston puts it, by taking a tough stance on North Korea?can transfer his momentum to domestic issues such as pension reform and economic inequality, bread-and-butter concerns that will likely push foreign policy off the front pages long before next July's critical upper-house elections. Many analysts are doubtful, not least because Abe has yet to set out his domestic agenda. His maiden Diet speech contained a lot of rhetoric about the need to make Japan...
...still strong. There was considerable concern about community standards and crowding in the street. There was some concern about crime. There are two differences that I think deserve to be put in front. The concern about population growth is very much a contemporary thing, really gaining a lot of momentum in the 1960s and growing thereafter. In 1915 [it] was really pretty minor. There were a handful of intellectuals who worried about the numbers and pressure on the environment, but the country was much more thinly settled then. The environmental movement was pretty young. We today have 300 million...
...Khosla applauds the momentum. "The only place we will see innovative solutions come from is the private sector," he says. "And the only way we will see them funded is by Wall Street. The government doesn't have enough money." That may be true. But Khosla, a self-described "free marketeer" and "fiscal Republican" opposed to subsidies, is co-chair and a contributor to Proposition 87, a statewide initiative that would impose a tax on oil companies for drilling in California - and use the $4 billion raised over 10 years to fund the development of "cleaner" and "cheaper" energy. "Proposition...
...last time the Harvard football team lost a game before this weekend was a memorable time. A wild swing of momentum on special teams, a key fourth-down call, and a turnover-free effort by quarterback Liam O’Hagan were the headline-makers against Princeton a year ago, the last time the Crmison lost before rattling off nine wins in a row.So what made the difference this time?A few wild swings of momentum on special teams, a key fourth-down call, the return of O’Hagan from suspension, and some head-scratching officiating marked...