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Why have neocons come to the forefront of Japanese political life? Many of the politicians themselves hypothesize that they are both the product and beneficiary of Japan's increasing insecurity about its role in the world. The lost decade of the 1990s, when Japan's status as Asia's most...
The study is sure to become a tool in the hands of politicians wrangling over plans to reform the federal tax system. "If anyone had any doubt about the unfairness of our present tax code," said Democratic Congressman J.J. Pickle of Texas, "these figures should convince them." Pickle, who requested...
Instead of stripping away our rights of free speech and freedom from unwarranted government searches or seizures, the PATRIOT Act simply applies to anti-terrorism procedures the long-standing practices used in standard policing. Detractors might be hard-pressed to explain why, prior to the Act, authorities could apply for...
In South Africa, the dilemma has become even more vexing as the Botha government, swaying between reform and repression, finds itself accused by non- whites of being too intransigent and by Afrikaner hard-liners of being too soft. The provision of new housing and the imminent repeal of the sex...
Reagan's letter was a deliberately vague attempt to accomplish the purpose of the amendment without formally invoking it. For practical purposes, the constitutional provision was in effect when Bush was made acting President. But the text of the letter explained the President's reluctance to implement the amendment: "I...