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...over Diet deliberations but also the competency of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's administration. While scandals come and go in Japan, some observers wonder if the young government that swept the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) out of more than five decades of single-party rule is resilient enough to ride this storm, with the Upper House elections slated for July. (See pictures of Japan's relationship with the world...
Three days after the attempted Christmas bombing of Northwest Flight 253, President Obama announced that federal air marshals would ride shotgun on more flights to and from the U.S. Armed, highly trained and unobtrusive, thousands of marshals are currently flying U.S. skies. But whether they can prevent airborne attacks is debatable...
...Rosenberg went for his weekly bike ride, receiving a phone call from the killers during which he gave them final instructions. He waited five minutes on a grassy patch near a gangly group of bougainvilleas for the hit men to come and kill him. In the days leading up to his death, Rosenberg bought a grave site for himself and one for Marjorie Musa. He left his law firm, turning over control to his law-student son. And he purchased a beach house on Guatemala's Pacific coast for his family, according to investigators and family members. "For someone like...
...Sunday, over 100 Bostonians stripped down to their underpants on the T as part of No Pants Subway Ride 2010, a nationwide event organized by Improv Everywhere. It’s what that crazy college student deep inside of you has secretly desired to do since arriving on this staid campus, but has refrained from doing so for many reasons—including, but not limited to, hygiene concerns, freezing temperatures, the wandering eyes of commuting skeeves, and those pesky public indecency laws...
...vowed not to change their product and have faced unique challenges trying to get a foothold in the market. With few open roads to hit, but plenty of traffic jams to navigate, Indian consumers, unlike their Chinese counterparts, often opt for function over form. Those who want a stylish ride pay for it dearly: import duties of more than 100% essentially double the sticker price of all foreign cars. To get around that, BMW and Mercedes assemble some of their models locally, cutting the taxes in half. When BMW first arrived in India, it discovered that the customers who could...