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...impressive achievement, requiring the blue-blooded conservative to dodge toward the ideological center. China and South Korea had cut off most high-level contacts with Japan to protest former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visits to the Yasukuni Shrine war memorial, which they view as a monument to Japanese imperialism. Abe was thought to be even more unrepentant than Koizumi on the issue. Yet he recently told the Diet that his government accepted previous official Japanese apologies for the country's aggression in World War II. He also acknowledged the responsibility of Japan's wartime leaders?including his own grandfather...
...best surprise is a vast, well-manicured lawn framed by a lotus pond and trees. Stretch out on one of the benches for that most elusive of Bangkok treats: a tranquil, verdant vista without a single high-rise in sight. The view could be declared a heritage monument in its own right...
...best surprise is a vast, well-manicured lawn framed by a lotus pond and trees. Stretch out on one of the benches for that most elusive of Bangkok treats: a tranquil, verdant vista without a single high-rise in sight. The view could be declared a heritage monument in its own right...
...importance. Scuffles broke out at a Soviet-era war memorial in Tallinn this year on May 9, the anniversary of the end of World War II, after Russian veterans unfurled Soviet flags. That prompted an outraged reaction, including a threat by one Estonian nationalist leader to blow up the monument. The park where the memorial is situated has since been cordoned off and remains under 24-hour police guard. Ask Heiki Ahonen, director of a museum dedicated to the Nazi and Soviet occupations, how Estonia is faring as it seeks to construct an integrated society, and he snorts: "This...
When one of his employees phoned in sick last year, Scott McDonald, CEO of Monument Security in Sacramento, Calif., decided to investigate. He had already informed his staff of 400 security guards and patrol drivers that he was installing Xora, a software program that tracks workers' whereabouts through GPS technology on their company cell phones. A Web-based "geo-fence" around work territories would alert the boss if workers strayed or even drove too fast. It also enabled him to route workers more efficiently. So when McDonald logged on, the program told him exactly where his worker...