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...Ironically, the area where Abe has made genuine progress is the one that critics were most afraid he would mishandle: foreign affairs. Abe has quickly managed to rebuild Japan's fractured relationships with South Korea and China, traveling to both capitals for lightning summits less than two weeks after he took power. While Koizumi continually irritated his neighbors by visiting the controversial Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japan's war dead, Abe tactfully sidestepped the issue by refusing to say what he intends to do about Yasukuni. "He's shown real success in dealing with this," says Koichi Kato...
...suspect that Obama's aim is to rebuild the bonfire of Howard Dean's grass-roots campaign, minus the scream. But raging infernos don't just happen. First comes courage. Dean never would have had his bonfire if he hadn't opposed the invasion of Iraq in clear, plain, inspiring English. Even then, Dean had trouble stoking the fire: the campaign was failing long before his fatal Iowa mating call. It had become a campaign cult, too enamored with itself, with too much blabber about the money being raised on the Web and not enough about issues other than Iraq...
...Iraqis in Stockholm fresh from Baghdad say the war is stripping Iraq of its skill base, driving out the people needed to rebuild the country's infrastructure, run businesses, and staff schools and hospitals. "For months people have been walking around Baghdad saying, 'Where's this person? Where's that person?'" says Raya, a 37-year-old doctor, a few hours after arriving in Stockholm. "Then someone will say: 'They've left; and they have left; and they have left.'" Raya, who did not want her last name published for fear her parents in Baghdad would be targeted, says...
...part, Noorzai insists that his offer to help stabilize Afghanistan was sincere. He is also certain that he offered his help to the right people: "I still believe American and NATO forces are the only ones who can help Afghanistan rebuild." They will just have to do it without...
...Gulf Coast that I saw was one where the wealthy slowly rebuild, while the poor (who overwhelmingly are racial minorities) watch helplessly from their makeshift FEMA trailers—their own solution to the housing crisis that still exists. This is a land where wealthy speculators purchase coastal land at upwards of one million dollars an acre, and where—just a few miles away—public housing recipients fend off efforts by local and state officials to dislodge them from their homes. This is a place where redeveloped casinos—opened only months after Katrina?...