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...nature of Japanese politics that all is not as it seems. The guy you think is running international trade, for instance, may be a puppet for some bureaucrat deep in his administration. The Prime Minister who seems energetic and bright may be just a prop for the conservatives in his party. The latest Japanese government has its share of opacity too. It arrived in office four weeks ago to the highest hopes of any government in the past decade. Koizumi is a charismatic reformer who speaks his mind and has a plastic, Clintonian charm. His arrival represented a victory over...
...Prescod-Weinstein also noted that moves to end affirmative action similar to Prop. 209 in California have not been made in Massachusetts...
...physician at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station; stricken with gallstones and pancreatitis; to Punta Arenas, Chile. In the second such mission in a year and a half--Dr. Jerri Nielsen, suffering from breast cancer, was rescued from the same station in October 1999--a team flying a twin-engine prop plane braved -90[Degrees]F winter weather and complete darkness...
This is not helped in the least by the relatively poor acting of much of Beale’s supporting cast. There was a comfort level at the Lyttelton which seemed to prop up the show’s other actors. What they lacked in delicacy and originality they made up for in confidence and a well-developed sense of how to turn a scene over to Beale without actually creating a one-man show. Now, with the cast out of its element, it has become increasingly clear that they resemble nothing more than a pick-up team whose only...
...China, and do abjectly, not to say nauseatingly apologize and beg forgiveness for our intrusion into the People's Airspace, which, we acknowledge, extends from your coasts, as you have said, one thousand miles in all directions, including up, and for the wanton running-doggery of flying our prop-driven spyplane into the path of one of your Chinese hero hotdogs, even as he was in the act of rushing serum back to Shanghai in order to save a dying orphan and sought to take a shortcut by slicing through the People's Airspace that was feloniously occupied at that...