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...early February poll, down from nearly 70% when he took office in September, and for the first time more people disapproved of him than approved. After early diplomatic successes in China and South Korea, scandals and controversies have entangled several top administration officials. There's growing doubt about his passion for carrying out economic and political reforms initiated by his predecessor Junichiro Koizumi, and his own advisers privately admit that the Prime Minister-who often seems scripted and ill at ease in public-is suffering in comparison to the remarkably mediagenic Koizumi. It doesn't help that Abe's young...
When Fal Allen expresses a fondness for beer, he doesn't just mean sipping suds in an air-conditioned bar with other members of Singapore's expatriate community. Instead, the 46-year-old American has the kind of passion that drives a man to try unexpected paths-in his case, the ones that lead to the Lion City's stiflingly hot open-air markets, where he sniffs handfuls of potent spices and quizzes stallholders on the flavors they yield. His mission? To find Asian beer's next big ingredient...
...think I kind of represent all Bears fans. Not that I'm saying they're all idiots like me, but I represent their passion because I really care about my team, you know?" SCOTT WIESE, a Chicago Bears fanatic who will legally change his name to Peyton Manning, the same as the Indianapolis Colts quarterback's, after losing...
Undergraduates spend the time they have outside of class in hundreds of different ways, in the pursuit of almost as many goals. Nevertheless, whether it be to find a passion, to explore a profession, to make lasting friendships, or simply to indulge a whim, extracurricular pursuits are an escape from academics, a sphere free from the demands of professors and the pressures of a transcript grade, a sphere in which one can learn self-reliance and life skills that cannot be taught in the ivory tower...
...best-selling author, of Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right (a book whose subtitle cued Fox News to sue him, unsuccessfully of course, for appropriating the channel's catchphrase) and The Truth, With Jokes. In 2004 his passion to mobilize progressives against Bush's war, and for the election of a Democratic President, landed him the job as host of a daily, three-hour talk show on the new liberal network Air America Radio, where - for a time, and in a few markets, among certain demographics - he got higher ratings...