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...garden, the imposing grave of Richard and his wife Cosima is unmarked. Who else could be buried here, after all? After a day of failing to share the passion, I head back to my pension with a sense of disgust. The connection between Wagner’s son and the Nazis is particularly appalling, and makes me discount the whole musical phenomenon as folly, an incomprehensible collective mistake...
...million, for a total of €560 million in increased earnings by 2007. This could mean sweeping job cuts at the British lender. Some question whether conservative British customers will remain loyal to the bank once it's in foreign hands. Indeed, many Abbey shareholders are pension funds and asset managers who, to maintain investment objectives, will have to sell if the bank becomes non-U.K. owned. Luqman Arnold, Abbey's chief executive, said he thought the deal would be similar to Wal-Mart's 1999 acquisition of British supermarket chain ASDA, which retains its own name and identity...
...possible" are still favorites, he's dropped the "two Americas" speech that wowed Democrats during the primaries. He sometimes even skips saying he's the son of a millworker. Edwards has also learned deference. When a New Orleans woman asked him what he could do to protect her pension, he told her the campaign didn't have a specific plan but promised to "tell John we had this conversation." When you're No. 2, sometimes that's the most...
...role with unexpected brio. He quickly brought his party back on message and waged a confident campaign. Capitalizing on an unexpected drop in Koizumi's popularity, Okada stoked the fires of outrage over the Prime Minister's two biggest recent missteps: his perceived mishandling of a major pension-reform bill, and his unpopular decision to keep troops in Iraq beyond Japan's original commitment date...
...others increasingly believe that Okada-the scion of a Japanese retailing dynasty and a Harvard graduate-is the party's best long-term hope of presenting a unified front against the LDP. His reputation as a serious policy wonk-particularly on Japan's hot-button pension-reform issue-and his history as a committed consensus-builder, they say, have made him a potent contrast to Koizumi, whom voters have begun to think of as imperious and impulsive. "Okada is a leader for the times," says Etsushi Tanifuji, a political-science professor at Waseda University in Tokyo. "After 9/11, politics...