Word: sakes
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...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's Liberal Democratic Party, went on to say he would side with opposition...
...Which raised the question: Did Kato really intend to mount this challenge, or did he get carried away over the grilled fish and warm sake? Nonsense, say two pundits at the dinner, Hisayuki Miyake and Shigezo Hayasaka. He knew to whom he was talking, they say, and the session was on the record. More likely, the episode revealed that Kato is a creature of the very habits - decision-making behind closed doors - that he claims to want to change. He can take comfort from one thing. The LDP's most powerful deal-maker, Hiromu Nonaka, said the result doesn...
...albums and proving that they were some of the only MCs that Hammer didn't scare away from dancing on stage. The concept for this new release, though, is no concept; the Pharcyde want to tone it down and just "rap for hip-hop's sake...
...Baptista, the girls' father, Jack Riccobono '03 shifts between several partially successful attempts at development-difficult enough when playing a single character in such a drastically cut script. Dabbling with incessant movement, puppetry, accents and sadistic depravation, Riccobono's numerous quirks ultimately seem to be more for their own sake and less about adding to either the themes of the piece or the dramatic action...
...when someone leaves with no books at all, so we know if it errs in any direction, it's oversensitive). More importantly, though, a peek into my bag has no chance of letting the guard know if I am taking any books with me. For goodness's sake, how stupid do they think we are? If someone wanted to take a book, they would do it, and the cursory check at the door would be no barrier. In fact, one door checker told me that they hardly ever find anyone stealing books. "And that's how it should...