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...some it may be surprising that a local politician would meddle in foreign affairs, but in New York City politics this is routine. Last month Mayor Michael Bloomberg dropped in on American troops in Afghanistan, and local politicians frequently go to the Dominican Republic, Israel, and Ireland, to drum up support from their constituents...
...Struggle controls just one-third of the seats in parliament. High unemployment and chronic government corruption have caused many to doubt her resolve to tackle tough problems. So to hang on to power and get re-elected in 2004, Megawati can't afford to ignore the conservatives. "Every politician in Indonesia needs the Islamic vote, and with Megawati it's even more so because of her secular nationalist background," says Arbi Sanit, a lecturer in politics at the University of Indonesia...
...have always looked at this process as a citizen and as an outsider, not as a politician. It never made sense to me to have a system where huge amounts of money were allowed to be given to politicians and then to have those very same donors come up and lobby politicians on issues...
...Though still extremely popular with the public?his approval rating hit 64% in early October?Koizumi's failure to follow through on his platform has left the silver-maned politician with a reputation for being all charisma, no clout. "He's always been a reformer at heart, but he wasted a lot of political capital by taking on secondary issues," says Steve Vogel, a professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley. That's why Koizumi's appointment of Takenaka last month to head the financial services agency surprised many, who took it as a demonstration of renewed...
Since the famously photographed murder of a Socialist leader by a right-wing youth in 1960, being a Japanese politician has been hazardous to little more than one's ego. That may have changed with the shocking murder last Friday of Diet member Koki Ishii. The 61-year-old Ishii was steps away from his car outside his home when he was stabbed repeatedly with what appeared to be a 30-cm sashimi knife by Hakusui Ito, a 38-year-old with ties to right-wing extremists. Ito fled the scene but turned himself in to the police the following...