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...Beyond the political shrapnel, however, Kyuma's gaffe represents a deeper setback to Abe. When he entered office last September as the youngest Prime Minister of the postwar period, Abe promised to make pacifist Japan as a normal nation, one that could defend itself and its allies on the world stage. He bumped up Kyuma's defense office to a Cabinet-level ministry, and set the revision of Japan's pacifist constitution as his signature issue. But Abe's vision of a more muscular Japan has excited few voters, who are more concerned with their pocketbooks, and constitutional revision...
...look at the total film, not just one scene," Hudgins said. "We are going to use our best judgment." A veteran of the film industry, Hudgins said he is sensitive to industry concerns - "I take this responsibility very, very seriously," he said - but he notes it is quite normal for other kinds of grants to come with conditions...
...camera photos have a strange glowy, vaseline-y quality to them? And personally I like a hardware button to press to take pictures, instead of software, placed parallel to the plane of the device, or I end up with shaky images. And either my thumbs are bigger than normal people's, or it really is tricky to type on this thing.) It's certainly tempting to. The hype for the iPhone has been so relentless - witness the screaming Yahoos outside the Apple store - that to praise the phone feels a bit like you're falling for a sales pitch. Resist...
...Denise A. Jillson, the executive director of the Harvard Square Business Association—an advocacy group that any Harvard Square business, from local independents to national chains, can join—thinks the recent closings are just part of a normal cycle of the continually changing face of the Square...
...Wyoming will be the only state in the country in 2008 with two U.S. Senate seats on the ballot and that the Senate appointee may be vulnerable in the lead-up to the vote, essentially because of his conservative pedigree. Says Luckett: "There would probably be a better than normal chance that Barrasso faces a primary challenge just because the process by which he got his position was limited to members of the Republican Central Committee, whose members are probably substantially to the right of your average Republican voter. The fact is, he's never won a statewide election...