Word: pol
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...Junichiro Koizumi An outsider with personality. An idol with great hair. The longtime pol positioned himself as a challenger to the dry bureaucrats that have overseen Japan's decade-long slump. Desperate for change, the public overwhelmingly backed him. Which could be why he retains popular support, despite still festering economic problems, reforms yet to be enacted and still empty promises of better days...
...will run for another term next year. That's despite outspoken criticism from the Democratic leadership, many of whom surfaced, shaking disapproving fingers, after Condit's much-hyped interview with Connie Chung. Local Democrats are already lining up in Condit's central California district, primed to challenge the battered pol in the March primaries...
...agony never seems to really end. No matter when Neveu returns?1981, 1985, 1990?the visages he captures so expertly are still gaunt. The hunger. The poverty. The children with distended bellies and thin arms. And there are guns and soldiers everywhere. The Vietnamese broke Pol Pot's control of the central state apparatus in 1979 and ended the general terror, but he and his troops simply melted back into the jungle to continue fighting. Countless other guerrilla forces were spawned. Neveu seems to have run with them all. He catches wounded soldiers on film as they are being dragged...
...tourism board geniuses in Cambodia are turning Pol Pots jungle hideout into a lush resort. After some work, the drive from the site to tourist-friendly Siem Reap has been trimmed to just...
Perhaps any pol would know to use a World Series game being played nine subway stops from the World Trade Center to teach a lesson in easy American resolve. Bush says that when he owned the Texas Rangers, the Yankees were the team that most often broke his heart. But he knew that this time the toss of a ball at the House that Ruth Built would mend more hearts than anything he could possibly...