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...perpetuating themselves, shutting out outside thinkers who can germinate ideas and passion. Shinzo Abe, grandson of a former Prime Minister, spent his time in office focused on historic legacies like Japan's conduct in World War II, rather than addressing pressing challenges like how to boost employment and revamp the nation's health system - and lost his job. Yet after ousting Abe, the Liberal Democrats turned to Yasuo Fukuda, another political scion, who seems similarly bereft of new ideas...
...called "Reform Treaty", which now gets renamed the Lisbon Treaty, is supposed to revamp the workings of the E.U. institutions so that the Union and its 27 member states can better steer through the maze of economic and foreign policy issues they face in the 21st century...
...treaty can help the E.U. overcome some serious divisions that are brewing in the short term. Major legislation designed to radically revamp the E.U. energy and telecommunication regulatory framework, including the possible break-up of large former government monopoly companies, is pending. On the foreign policy front, a drive led by France to impose tough economic sanctions on Iran has met resistance among other member states. And the question of how to deal with Kosovo, especially if it declares independence later this year, could cause a split in the E.U. as painful as the one over the war in Iraq...
...retired Air Force officer with a stellar record at the Pentagon, Charles Riechers was supposed to help revamp the USAF's procurement office, saddled by allegations of favoritism and inefficiency. Instead, the office's newly installed No. 2 was found in his garage, dead of an apparent suicide. An active-duty officer for 20 years, he had been under scrutiny in recent weeks for a consulting job with an Air Force contractor that had been arranged for him by the Air Force. Riechers...
...McDonald's approached us some six months ago to help revitalize and revamp their European restaurants," Fritz Hansen CEO Jacob Holm told TIME in Copenhagen. "We developed Arne Jacobsen chairs in special colors and began deliveries." In particular Avanzi and McDonald's chose The Egg and The Seven chairs, two of Jacobsen's most iconic creations. Jacobsen, who died in 1971, contracted Fritz Hansen to be the sole licensed manufacturer of his designs in 1934, meaning nobody else can make an original Egg (created in 1958) or Seven (1955). Approximately 2,500 of those chairs have already been sold...