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...threw a bomb at me." Yasuhiro Nakasone, 85-year-old former Japanese Prime Minister, of current PM Junichiro Koizumi's request that he not run in an upcoming parliamentary election because...
...PM, Monday, East Coast 7:50 AM, Tuesday, Bangkok...
...home, Thaksin's programs have endeared him to the impoverished and, more recently, to a skeptical middle class once convinced that the PM's antidote for Thailand's domestic ills?including low interest rates, government-funded health plans, and cheap loans for the poor?was little more than populism masquerading as policy. "I never voted for Thaksin in the elections," says Bangkok-based advertising executive Kitti Chambundabongse. "I thought he was just another rich kid with a hunger for power. But he has proved to be so much more than that. He's given us the confidence we lacked...
...minutes? His father applied that ethic to leisure. His son applies it to work. Yesterday, he spent just over 12 hours in Japan and eight hours in the Philippines. He gets to an event, he speaks, he moves on. Who else leaves a State Dinner by 8 PM to catch a plane? Speech. Motorcade. Speech. Motorcade. There?s no Clintonesque lingering or working the crowd...
...report in a year on how to handle gay issues appears unlikely to prevent a rift. - By Helen Gibson Oil on Troubled Waters BELGIUM The E.U. sought to calm U.S. fears that a planned European military force would undermine NATO. At the end of a two-day summit, Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi...