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...more muscular Japan has excited few voters, who are more concerned with their pocketbooks, and constitutional revision has barely figured as an issue in July's election. The violent reaction to Kyuma's relatively mild speech - more of an offense against political correctness than history - is a potent reminder that pacifism remains Japan's knee-jerk reaction to anything related to the military, and that domestic sensitivities trump the realities of geopolitics, where nuclear weapons are an unavoidable reality. Abe wanted to change the game of Japanese politics, but the old rules still apply - and so far, he's losing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan's Administration in Meltdown | 7/3/2007 | See Source »

...don’t drink coffee and had never tried an energy drink before. So, when offered a Power Horse on my first day as an intern, I should have just said no. At the meeting, the writers immediately offered the interns cans of the potent drink. “It’s like this Austrian energy drink 5 times the power of Red Bull, and totally illegal in the United States,” they said, gesturing to the stacked cases. We all dutifully grabbed a heavy...

Author: By Candace I. Munroe | Title: Horse Power | 6/28/2007 | See Source »

...tenacious enemy - and may even put Americans at greater risk. A TIME investigation reveals that militant groups have responded to the U.S. surge with a big push of their own, unleashing a flurry of new or rarely used tactics and innovations designed to maximize the death toll. Their most potent weapons are the roadside bombs being fashioned by men like Abdallah, which now account for roughly 80% of U.S. deaths, up from 50% at the start of the year. "People are calling me all the time, asking for new ways to ..." Abdallah says, pressing down his right thumb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Enemy's New Tools in Iraq | 6/14/2007 | See Source »

...like Paige, maybe I can use the most potent of antidotes—baseball—to ease the feeling that my best days, my time spent working on The Crimson, which has given me so many amazing memories and the opportunity to meet the greatest people (and person) I could ever hope to meet, are behind...

Author: By Caleb W. Peiffer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: PARTING SHOTS: Rules for Staying Forever Young | 6/5/2007 | See Source »

...House does provide the student with a sense of community, as we have noted above. However, the sense of belonging is not potent enough to dissipate a strong feeling of detachment and isolation,” the report reads. “The House has been unable to cope with this sense of impersonality bred by the growing size of the University...

Author: By Jamison A. Hill, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Preparing the Age that Was Coming | 6/1/2007 | See Source »

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