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Equally disturbing is the fact he thought he could get away with these pardons. The politician with nine lives, who has lived his entire life above the law, believed he was invincible...
...central role is being played by the Prime Minister of Japan. For now that's a politician named Yoshiro Mori who fell into the job when the previous Prime Minister, the good-natured Keizo Obuchi, unexpectedly suffered a stroke in April of last year. Five senior politicians of Obuchi's venerable Liberal Democratic Party met behind the ornate screens in Tokyo's Akasaka Prince Hotel to decide which of them would get the top job. The Gang of Five, as they are known, hurriedly picked Mori without consulting the rest of the party, much less the nation...
...relationship between parents and children, means and ends, ends and beginnings. And as a result, the conversation that has occupied scientists and ethicists for years, about how much man should mess with nature when it comes to reproduction, will drop onto every kitchen table, every pulpit, every politician's desk. Fierce debate over issues like abortion and euthanasia will seem tame and transparent compared with the questions that human cloning raises...
...being stunned by Clinton's judgment lately. Having his $200 haircut and allowing a Hollywood producer to work out of a White House office and then intervene on behalf of friends to win White House air-charter business have done serious damage to his public standing. 'The best politician the Democratic Party has turned up in a long time turns out to have a tin ear,' said a longtime friend. 'He has squandered his moral authority with a lot of this stuff. It leads people to say, "This man isn't really a populist; he is a phony, a fraud...
...What started this, essentially, was a row between Turkey's prime minister, Bulent Ecevit, and its president, Ahmet Necdet Sezer. Ecevit is a classic Turkish machine politician, who's used to looking the other way at corruption in order to hang on to power. Sezer, meanwhile, was put up by the three-part coalition that was in power as a puppet, someone who would go along to get along. But like a Supreme Court Justice who doesn't vote the way you want, he's turned into a reformer and a real thorn in the side of those in power...