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...legislature sets any reforms in these areas in motion, he says...
Japan's crisis, perhaps the root cause of today's economic turmoil, occurred in slow motion, giving plenty of time for its leaders to step in with the hard but manageable changes required to forestall full-scale recession. Over eight years, land prices crashed and then stock prices, and then the entire banking system threatened to cave in. But the country's politicians and bureaucrats repeatedly buried their heads in vain hopes that the problems would just go away. Having let its own ailments fester for years, Japan was in no position, despite its wealth, to help when its neighbors...
...parties. Join the Harvard Democrats and learn to conceal evidence, exploit legal technicalities and enjoy a fine cigar. Watch out for rug burns. Those leaning to the right can take their place with the Republican Club. If you enjoyed Fred Thompson's performance as Bill Bilecki in the classic motion picture "Feds," help make sure that this fine performer and patriotic American gets his due. Help elect him president...
...from accidental deployment of air bags, and you get hearings in Congress," says Asser. "But this goes on, and dozens die, and people think there's no problem because the deaths happen one at a time. Yet the kids who die suffer horribly. This is Jonestown in slow motion...
Once you put an all-out scandal in motion, there's no stopping it, which is why I doubt that all this is behind us. We've gone so far as to have ABC bump a football game so we could hear the President confess that he had I.R.'d an intern after all. As overnight polls indicated that most Americans were satisfied by the apology, TV pontificators informed us that it wasn't an apology that would satisfy most Americans. It was limited, they said. This...