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America's voice, as expressed by our government, must be outspoken in support of democratization in all of these countries. The global success of liberty is America's greatest strategic interest as well as its most compelling moral argument. All our other interests are served in that cause. The more countries that are governed with the consent of the governed, the fewer there will be where resentment caused by corrupt rulers can be misdirected toward...
Politician Shintaro Ishihara likes to portray himself as a friend of the common man. Certainly he's no friend of Japan's sinking banks. Last week, the outspoken governor of Tokyo jolted the financial community by threatening to withdraw $14.4 billion of the Tokyo government's money from Mizuho Bank, one of Japan's largest. If Mizuho, which is burdened with $19.4 billion in bad debt, does not clean up its act, Ishihara warned, he'll take his business elsewhere, even to U.S.-based Citigroup. "One thing we must consider is whether a financial institution is safe," Ishihara says. "Another...
...Indeed, many have predicted a flowering of Japanese democracy before. Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa's 1993 victory over the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, the first in decades, was short-lived. Within nine months, Hosokawa was out and party stalwarts ruled as before. This time, however, the outspoken governors and their grassroots electorates?who are now rising in open rebellion against central authority?appear to be something truly new. While Koizumi and Tokyo's power brokers are sidelined, it is maverick local leaders who are running up to the ball. Let's just hope the ball is still there when they...
...SENTENCED. TOM GREEN, 53, outspoken Mormon polygamist who until recently lived with his five wives and 30 children in Utah's remote West Desert; to five years to life in prison for child rape; in Nephi, Utah. Green, who is already in prison for bigamy and failure to pay child support, is accused of raping his wife Linda Kunz, now 30, with whom he conceived a child when she was 13. Although the Mormon church renounced polygamy in the 1890s, about 30,000 people continue the practice in Utah and neighboring states...
This touchy-feely stuff comes in part from Bonderman, who taught law at Tulane University in New Orleans in the 1960s but reportedly fell out of favor because of his "hippie" clothing and outspoken liberal viewpoints. He is an ardent conservationist, working with the Grand Canyon Trust and the Wilderness Society...