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...famous Harvard government professor often complains that no data-heavy, model-driven graduate student gets a good job in political science these days. Perhaps more importantly, such flawed assumptions have grounded endless flights this week. Just yesterday, EU regulators acknowledged they should have conducted more actual tests rather than outright banning European flights for five days. The EU director general for transport, Matthias Ruete, admitted as much when referring to the models that had led to the ban: “[They are] a black box in certain areas...
...however, Hatoyama has struggled to satisfy Japan's high hopes. The Prime Minister has often appeared a weak, ineffectual leader, unable to provide a clear direction on policy or control a three-party ruling coalition that is a grab bag of politicians with contradictory ideologies, from relative conservatives to outright socialists. Open disagreements have broken out between Cabinet members, especially over the controversial privatization of Japan's postal system - a free-market initiative begun, not incidentally, during Koizumi's term as Prime Minister. "Whenever you try to get down to reforms you're bound to face difficulties," Hatoyama says...
Harvard’s win dealt Yale’s ambitions of an at-large NCAA tourney bid a major blow. Princeton, on the other hand, has already clinched an automatic NCAA spot and the outright Ivy League title...
...election is the battle for the soul of a country, and party spin doctors are busily concocting competing visions of Britain to lure voters to the polls on May 6. The stakes are high. The Conservatives' lead in opinion polls is too narrow to guarantee an outright victory, and that might allow the Labour government to hang on by the skin of its teeth (Britain's electoral system favors incumbents), or it could result in a hung parliament, with Liberal Democrats and other smaller parties holding the balance of power...
...stock-price bubble collapsed in the early 1990s, the economy has teetered on the edge of recession, occasionally tumbling into one. With one exception (Junichiro Koizumi), the country has been captained by a series of leaders who seemed content to reluctantly repair the economy so that it doesn't outright sink, but not enough for it to return to the high-flying days of yesteryear. What I find most baffling about Japan is how a nation can be in such a protracted period of malaise and never seem to muster the will or ability to do very much about...