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...expensive, faceless bureaucracy such as the E.U. I urge all Europeans to consider the potential consequences of union, since these consequences are likely to play out the current fears we all have over our economies - economies that have been wrecked largely by incompetent British and currently inconvenienced American power players. Marissa Cockling, PORTSMOUTH, ENGLAND...
After Japan's frustrated voters handed power to the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) in the Aug. 30 parliamentary election, many had hopes that the country's new leaders would begin to solve some of the country's intractable economic problems. Among other popular proposals, the new government, led by Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, vowed to provide more government assistance for families to promote consumer spending while simultaneously taming the country's ballooning debt, which at nearly 200% of GDP is the highest among rich nations...
...cannot go to a conveyor-belt sushi place anymore," he says. In 2001, when the yen was still rolling, Honda helped auction a Pacific bluefin at Tsukiji for about $220,000. It was one of the most expensive fish ever sold in Japan. "Maguro," Honda explains, "has a power to move people." (Watch TIME's video "Bluefin Tuna Catch...
Your article concluded that as women's power and wealth start to surpass men's, men and women increasingly share the same interests and concerns. But that has not been my experience. Working in a female-dominated profession, I repeatedly hear women express frustration that there don't seem to be many real men anymore. Men express confusion that their efforts not to be domineering leave them disdained by those women. The irony is that many men today try to be the sensitive, nonabrasive types that the women's movement said women would want. But in fact, many women...
...This was a symbolic fight - it's about who's in charge of the playground," says Amy Zegart, a UCLA professor and national-security expert. "Blair was trying to show who's boss, and Panetta was trying to protect the power of an agency that's going through a difficult time...