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...there are plenty of new views about Japan. The most popular is that the country finally has the kind of policy guidance it needs to get turned around. That leadership takes a variety of forms. The Bank of Japan, for instance, has been telegraphing with very un-Greenspan-like candor that it intends to keep short-term interest rates near zero. At the same time, an encouraging amount of "micro-reform" is under way in Japan--tiny revolutions in entrepreneurial companies that may forge a Japan built for the Internet age. As some Japanese like to observe, they spent...
...also has more advanced agricultural and technological needs for this water. Still, many of Israel's neighbors blame their daily thirst, or at least fear that their wells will soon run dry, on the territorial nature of the Jewish state. Classic anti-Israel rhetoric. Israel still looms in the popular imagination as the capitalistic conquistadors. By all accounts, this is an unfair charge but proof that resentment and bitterness still exists in this region, especially among average people...
They carry Harvard football, Record Hospital and the ever-popular reading period "orgies." But WHRB-FM (95.3) may soon start airing a show that has a much higher-profile...
WHRB won the opportunity after WCRB-FM (102.5), a popular Boston classical station, decided to drop the program after carrying it for more than 60 years...
Another potential Metropolitan opera broadcaster, Boston's public radio station WGBH-FM (89.7), recently said they declined to carry the opera program because it would displace its popular Saturday afternoon folk music shows...