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With his bull neck and broad shoulders, Yoshiro Mori looks more like a rugby player than a politician. He is perceived as an overcautious, scandal-tainted back-room dealer with no discernible ideology, little international experience and zero tact. In recent months, he has managed to insult Americans, Okinawans, Osakans, AIDS sufferers and teachers. As for political courage, even friends say he has the heart of a flea. All of which makes Mori, 62, an ideal Prime Minister--at least in the eyes of the long-dominant Liberal Democratic Party, which last week chose him to replace the incapacitated Keizo...
...nation's largest electric utility and continues to fuel economic growth in Tennessee and surrounding states. But it also has doled out millions of dollars in consulting fees, salaries, rent for office space, and investment capital, much of it directed to supporters and advisers of the home-state politician who reached the vice presidency, Al Gore...
...much of Russian politics--the creation of Unity, for example. And it was never so clear as in the highly controversial destruction of Unity's main rival, a party called Fatherland-All Russia, during the campaign for the Duma last fall. When former Prime Minister Primakov, the most popular politician in Russia, and Moscow's pathologically ambitious Mayor Luzhkov joined forces to form Fatherland, their victory--first in Duma elections and then the presidential race--seemed inevitable. Within a couple of months, however, they had been reduced to bit players. The main weapon employed by Pavlovsky was the Internet. Only...
...speech at the ARCO Forum, Hasina--a long time activist turned politician--detailed her country's transition from dictatorship to democracy and her role in that change...
...deadly threat lost their lives. You would think the police commissioner would say he was sorry. You would think the city's mayor would express sympathy for the victims' families. Since this is an election year, though, I guess basic human decency is too much to expect from a politician who evicts the homeless at Christmastime...