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...likely to be Japan's next PM...
...sets, and midterms. Yes, there are two midterms in each class, but they’re nothing to cry about. The problems sets are due weekly and won’t fry any brain cells as long as you don’t start them Thursday night at 11 PM. The labs aren’t always relevant to the course, but they’re easy points. If you’re having trouble with the work, the capable TFs are happy to assist you, but may be a little bewildered by some portions of the course they haven?...
...lifelong right-winger from conservative stock (his grandfather was arrested as a war criminal after World War II, though never charged), Abe has visited Yasukuni repeatedly in the past. So far he has refused to say whether he would go as PM, but even if Abe defuses tensions over Yasukuni, he has other ways to rile Japan's neighbors. For a start, local media reported last week that he has plans to revise the country's pacifist constitution to allow Japan's self-defense forces greater participation in allied military operations?a signal that he's eager for Japan...
...While Beppe was being a Good Samaritan, Severgnini would observe the scene and offer congratulations. Beppe would then acknowledge his own compliment, and retire satisfied." But for all of its folksiness, the book can't escape a weightier encounter with history. Severgnini laments Italy's former playboy PM, Silvio Berlusconi, as the personification and perpetuator of the world's Italian stereotypes. "He had a lethal charm," he says. "My book explains why so many Italians voted for him. But it's not pro or against Berlusconi - it explains how much of Italy was in Berlusconi." That is to say, Berlusconi...
Japanese Gesture A shrine visit could mean trouble PM Junichiro Koizumi's likely visit this week to the Yasukuni shrine honoring Japan's war dead may create more strain with South Korea and China, who see it as an homage to Japanese atrocities...