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Last week's failed attempt to drive Japan's Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori from office got its start at a private dinner among Tokyo's media elite. On November 6, reformist lawmaker Koichi Kato had dinner with the publisher of Japan's largest-circulation daily and four political pundits at the tony Okura Hotel. Kato had sipped "three or four bottles of sake," according to two of his companions, when he was asked if he would support a reorganization of government ministries under Mori. "No," Kato said. "I won't let Mori reshuffle the cabinet." Kato, a member of Mori...
...everything, people have managed to emerge from the foster-care system to become pillars of society. In January a 23-month-old girl in Washington was beaten to death after a judge remanded her, despite inadequate paper work, to her mother's care. The case so affected Washington's reformist mayor, Anthony Williams, that he broke from his prepared text in his State of the District speech in March to reflect on his own life in foster care in California, where he lived untended, given up to a life of supposed mental retardation until he was adopted...
...opposition groups in recent years, and the 15 parties in the coalition he led - which was based not on a policy consensus but simply on the need to oust Milosevic - must necessarily go their separate ways in a parliamentary election. He may be set to learn, like Iran?s reformist president Mohammed Khatami, that winning the presidency by a landslide doesn?t always eliminate the old order...
...than the tired liberal spending that is the hallmark of the policy advocated by Vice President Al Gore '69. Indeed, Gore is so bound to money from the special interest teachers' unions and National Education Association representatives that one leading education commentator this week concluded that while Gore mouths reformist education ideas, there's nothing in his record to indicate that he would stand up to education unions and take some of the bold steps that strongly encourage change...
...there anyone interested in not allowing a fugitive of Ecuadoran justice to teach at Harvard?" wrote Humberto X. Mata '90, a member of the liberal reformist movement Fuerza Ecuador, in an e-mail message to The Crimson and University officials...