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...been given full inheritance rights and now husbands and in-laws are killing wives to get their share of the family property." Oddly, the urban young, too, seem to support the status quo. A radio call-in program on the pop station KATH FM found few in favor of reform. "Women don't need property rights. They need respect and something more," Uma Raj Bhandari, founder of Sparkle, Nepal's only all-female rock band, told listeners...
...pork hidden in the federal budget. Now he is tearing the wrong way up a one-way drive into the Capitol for a press conference with conservative Blue Dog Democrats supporting his effort to drive the pigs from the trough. After a decade of frustration, McCain's campaign-finance-reform bill will finally get its hearing on the Senate floor, without threat of filibuster, this week...
...threat if he weren't such a good guy. He is "McCain without the attitude," as one colleague puts it. A Vietnam War hero, part maverick, part go-to guy for moderates of both parties, Hagel is that highly evolved political creature: principled but open for business. The Reform Over My Dead Body folks, such as Senator Mitch McConnell, can talk to him, as can the President, who has met with Hagel three times on reform. Although Bush's just-released "statement of principles" differs from Hagel's bill in some respects, Bush would sign it, since it allows soft...
...weak. If the banks start calling in their bad loans, companies from these sectors would be first in line, so it has been in the interest of the L.D.P. to stave off such a day of reckoning. "Say there are five companies in one industry," says Yasuhisa Shiozaki, a reform-minded L.D.P. lawmaker. "Government interference makes them all as unproductive as the weakest one of the five." It does that with direct subsidies, by shielding them from imports and by not forcing lenders to call in bad loans...
Following up on initial steps toward reform would help Japan's fundamentals over the long term. But the really scary part is that dramatic attempts to rev the economic engine right away have had minimal effect. The government, originally acting on the advice of Washington, tried to stop the initial slide by slashing interest rates and funding huge public-works projects. But the government spending has been directed toward things the country really doesn't need: expressways in rural areas and bridges to nowhere. The Bank of Japan has dropped interest rates to near zero, but that hasn't worked...