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...most powerful politician in Japan. How the 75-year-old Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) elder finessed a heritage that could have been a liability offers insight into what motivates him and how he operates. From his first campaign for a seat on the town council of Sonobe, a rural town west of Kyoto, Nonaka did not deny his burakumin ties. He didn't advertise them, either. Instead, he adroitly brought himself out of the closet, in a pair of speeches early in his national political career. Nobody could "out" Nonaka because he had outed himself...
...Whether by destiny or chance, Delvoye's controversial art seems perfectly aligned with Europe's current indigestion over what it ingests. He was born in rural Flanders where there are more pigs than people, and he says he has always felt a pull to the "agrarian tradition" in Flemish art. His studio walls bear ironic witness to that: photographs that seem to depict delicate inlaid marble floors are actually intarsia of processed meat, pork parquettes fashioned from deep scarlet salamis and delicate pink bolognas and hams. One previous succés de scandale was to tattoo live pigs with...
...Young's small-business career began as an eBay cliche. A stay-at-home mother of two school-age daughters, living in rural Crawfordsville, Ind., Young had more time on her hands than money. She had always been good with computers and had an eye for collectibles. She started scouring local flea markets and estate sales looking for undervalued knickknacks she could then list on eBay. At first Young tried to keep 15 auctions going at any given time; then 25; then 50. Eventually, she reached 100. When the packing and fulfillment got to be too much to handle...
...opposition protests against government corruption and, along with other legislation, is unlikely to be passed. This, despite extensive debate over four sessions of the assembly and a Supreme Court ruling ordering a better deal for women. Critics say the governing Nepali Congress party, with its support largely from conservative rural areas, is not taking the bill or the plight of women seriously enough. "It would be a disaster if this oppor-tunity were missed," says women's activist Aruna Uprety. "If the bill fails, Nepali women will know that men in parliament don't want to help them...
...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 to stimulate the economy either...