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...Israel Prime Minister Shuffle After the resignation of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni is poised to become the nation's first female Premier since Golda Meir. Livni, a 50-year-old lawyer and former low-level Mossad agent with only about a decade of political experience, won her moderate Kadima party's elections on Sept. 17 and now has about six weeks to put together a majority coalition. She faces resistance from Benjamin Netanyahu's conservative Likud party, which opposes her recent peace talks with the Palestinians...
...Tokyo A New Face for Japan On his fourth try for the Prime Minister's post, former Foreign Minister Taro Aso ascended to the top job on Sept. 24. A brash, freewheeling nationalist given to political gaffes (he has joked about Alzheimer's disease and said he wanted Japan to be an attractive destination for "rich Jews"), Aso, 68, cuts a sharply different figure from his dour predecessors, Shinzo Abe and Yasuo Fukuda--whose tenures were dogged, respectively, by scandal and partisan gridlock. A former Olympic sharpshooter and an avid fan of manga comics, he has stressed energizing Japan...
Manmohan Singh Prime Minister of India...
...England Brown Faces Down Critics Prime Minister Gordon Brown scored a reprieve from those within his party pushing for his ouster. In a heralded speech at Labour's annual meeting in Manchester on Sept. 23, Brown said the country's current financial turmoil--echoing credit-crisis woes in the U.S.--meant this was "no time for a novice." He went on to refer to Labour as a "rock of stability...
...turned in those performances, racing down the field to catch 20 of quarterback Chris Pizzotti’s 30 completions on the way to Harvard’s 25-24 victory over Holy Cross. Without former wideout Corey Mazza ’08 and with the injury to a prime receiving threat in junior Mike Cook, the expected main focus of the Harvard offense and Pizzotti’s passes was junior wideout Matt Luft. However, Iannuzzi and Lorditch showed the Crusader defense that ignoring them would prove costly. The sophomores quickly got over any first game jitters that they...