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...issue is expected to dominate next month's London summit of leaders from the G-20 group of top economies. "I do not have high expectations for London," says Nicolas Véron, a scholar at the Brussels-based economic think tank Bruegel. "Not everyone will follow the U.S. just because of Obama. Global solidarity solutions are fiendishly difficult both to decide and to enforce. There is a growing realization that regional or national responses are preferable wherever possible...
...hard to argue that the LDP's performance of late has been anything but miserable. Each of the three leaders since Koizumi - Shinzo Abe, Yasuo Fukuda and Aso, has seemed less impressive than the last. Last month, Aso's Finance Minister, Shoichi Nakagawa, was forced to resign after appearing to be drunk (he said he was suffering the after-effects of cold medication) at a press conference during an important international meeting. "Typically recessions were good for the LDP," says Jesper Koll, president and CEO of Tantallon Research Japan, "but this time around it is sort of pathetic. The government...
...news, when it came out last month, seemed shocking enough: Philip Alston, a U.N. special rapporteur who had come to Kenya, concluded that there exists in the country a "systematic, widespread and carefully planned strategy" of executions by police, almost certainly conducted with the consent of their top brass. Then two weeks later, two human-rights activists were gunned down in what appeared to be a well-planned attack as they sat in traffic just a few yards from State House, the home of President Mwai Kibaki. Many Kenyans immediately suspected the police were involved; the two slain...
...there is in Japan always a nostalgia for a supposedly simpler past rather than an unpredictable future. In Tokyo's Ota Memorial Museum of Art this month there is an exquisite exhibition of ukiyo-e woodblock prints by Yoshu Chikanobu, displaying Japan during the Meiji period when Western habits - European music and military uniforms, guns, crinolines - were beginning to replace the old ways...
...Zaidi told the court last month that he could not control his emotions once Bush started speaking. "I had the feeling that the blood of innocent people was dropping on my feet during the time that he was smiling and coming to say bye-bye to Iraq with a dinner," he was quoted as telling the court. "So I took the first shoe and threw it, but it did not hit him. Then spontaneously I took the second shoe, but it did not hit him either. I was not trying to kill the commander of the occupation forces of Iraq...