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...much] more sophisticated, pro-style offense than LSU did,” Murphy said. “They were very simple, just kind of three-step stuff, bubble screens and get it to their fast guys. Here it’s a little bit more like a pro-style offense, at least from the pass-game standpoint. [Hatch has] shown flashes of brilliance, he’s just got to be more consistent...
...Ichiro's grandson Yukio is taking a shot. In a major turning point for modern Japan, Yukio Hatoyama's Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) won a landslide victory in parliamentary elections last year, tossing out the staunchly pro-U.S. Liberal Democrats, who had reigned almost interrupted since 1955. Hatoyama, 63, with an engineering Ph.D. from Stanford University, followed his granddaddy into the Prime Minister's post and immediately set about changing Japan's economy, government - and relationship with the U.S. "It was always in response to what the U.S. had to say that Japan followed," Hatoyama told TIME...
...government works and help build the capacity to secure the country's recovery. Already the Africa Governance Initiative, which I set up two years ago, works alongside President Paul Kagame of Rwanda and President Ernest Bai Koroma in Sierra Leone. They are examples of a new generation of pro-business, pro-reform African leaders, serious about rooting out corruption, protecting investors and leading more stable, better governed countries, convinced that a thriving private sector is a force for good. (See pictures of Africa's AIDS crisis...
...confident I will see a prosperous and exciting Africa in my lifetime. By supporting the new generation of pro-reform, pro-business leaders and harnessing the investment potential of the private sector, Africa will go from aid to trade, from ambition to action, and by doing so will bring millions of people out of poverty in the process...
...presentation, he suggested that Israel’s current economic blockade of Gaza, now in its fourth year, represents a successful effort to “break Gaza’s runaway population growth.” He therefore argued against what he called “pro-natal subsidies” of food, medicine, and humanitarian aid that help to reproduce the “constant supply of superfluous young men” demanded by a so-called “culture of martyrdom” in Gaza...