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...Though the saga is likely to drag on, many observers are betting that the Prime Minister will ultimately buckle, compro- mising on the plan's recommendations until they are impotent. Real reform, they say, is about as likely as the successful completion of that Hail Mary pass. "The reformers are on their own 25-yard line and the anti-reformers control the rest of the field," says Peter Ennis, editor of the Oriental Economist. For Koizumi, failure may mean the end of his last, best hope of being remembered as a great reformer. "If the latest round goes down poorly...
...Tuyen says. Vietnam's highways now claim 1,000 lives a month, double the rate of just five years ago. It's part of the price of modernization as a newly-moneyed citizenry moves up to motorized transportation. But there's a strange twist to this familiar developing country saga. The government has started to treat motorcycles like dangerous drugs. It wants to curtail the blacktop carnage by cutting off the supply?imposing stiff import quotas on motorcycle manufacturers operating in the communist country...
...Wellstone had been locked in a tight re-election campaign against Republican challenger Norm Coleman and had begun to pull away in recent weeks, in part because this year's chapter in the Iraq saga provided Wellstone with an opportunity to remind Minnesotans that his maverick streak remained as sharp as ever. As the only vulnerable incumbent to vote against the resolution that would give President Bush war powers, Wellstone told the Senate, "Acting now on our own might be a sign of our power, but acting sensibly and in a measured way in concert with our allies ... would...
...deadly sniper saga continues in the Washington, D.C. suburbs and well into Virginia, leaving investigators stymied. Death returned to Maryland early Tuesday morning when a bus driver was shot and killed in Montgomery County; Wednesday afternoon, ballistic tests confirmed a link with previous shootings. Public anxiety, already on the rise, was further piqued by the words on a note found near Saturday's shooting in Richmond, and released by police Tuesday evening: "Your children," the ominous message read, "are not safe anywhere at any time...
...when PBS aired the Forsyte Saga--a 26-part Victorian-Edwardian mini-series based on John Galsworthy's novels--it was revolutionary. Years before The Sopranos, it showed Americans that TV could tell stories as novels do. Its success led PBS to create Masterpiece Theatre--it was the soap that launched a thousand bustles. To say that remaking the show now is not quite so daring is kind. To be unkind--and honest--it only bolsters the criticism that PBS these days is redundant and irrelevant...