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...Increase in the share price of Merck the day a jury found its Vioxx drug had not caused a postal worker's heart attack, in the second Vioxx case to reach trial; Merck lost the first in August...
...PASSED. JAPAN'S POSTAL-REFORM BILLS, by a vote of 134 to 100, in the Upper House of parliament; in Tokyo. The vote ensures the enactment of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's plan to privatize the three functions of Japan's $3 trillion postal system, including the world's largest savings bank, by 2017. A cornerstone of Koizumi's reform agenda, the bills were voted down by the Upper House in August, causing the Prime Minister to call snap elections for the Lower House aimed at silencing critics of the plan?even those in his own party. (The Lower House...
...framing Japan's Sept. 11 parliamentary election as a referendum on his postal-privatization plan and outmaneuvering his rivals with dextrous political campaigning, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has scored his greatest victory, helping the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to its biggest majority since 1986. The encore, however, could prove trickier. Koizumi's postal-reform bill, aimed at breaking Japan's $3 trillion postal service into four separate companies by 2017, will be re-submitted at a special Diet session this week and is all but guaranteed to pass. His plans beyond that are hazy. Koizumi has promised...
...Some wonder if the desire to drive through more of his oft-deferred reforms could spur Koizumi to extend his tenure. But he already appears to be handing tough choices off to his unnamed successor. He has avoided discussing any substantial reforms beyond postal privatization, and while LDP party secretary Tsutomu Takebe has admitted that mounting social-services costs have made a consumption tax hike imminent, Koizumi has committed not to raise them. With tough battles yet to come, University of Kyoto politics professor Terumasa Nakanishi and others believe stepping down as promised may be Koizumi's smartest move?leaving...
...Kiki looms large. Her much-discussed 115-kg frame, once much smaller, practically becomes a character in and of itself. She is generally a warm, charming woman, but when angered, she reverts to her roots and, in her children's words, "comes over all Florida" (a Belseyism for going postal). In another work she might be reduced to a Big Momma from central casting, but while Kiki is humorous she is never laughable. The book's lyrical skill, and the sweeping mix of ages, races and personal histories that populate the pages, is reminiscent of White Teeth. But On Beauty...