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...Sure, but will it tickle the discerning canine palate? TIME decided to test Kwispelbier on some of Europe's most favored pooches in Paris's Bois de Boulogne, near the up-scale 16th Arrondissement and a favorite walking spot of the city's finest pedigrees (both four- and two-legged varieties...
...easy. Polls show that a thin majority of Israelis want to get rid of settlements. But Olmert's dismal approval ratings have forced him into a marriage of convenience with the pro-settlement right wing. A large-scale campaign to evacuate Jewish settlers could produce more clashes like the one that erupted last January in an outpost called Amona, when an army effort to dislodge a few families left 200 soldiers and settlers injured. Another outbreak of violence could bring down Olmert's centrist government, which would probably hand power to hawkish parties who are in no mood to make...
...seats in the Diet's lower house and 144 out of 252 in the upper chamber. Still, strong opposition has already surfaced, especially to the imposition of new taxes. In last July's general election, Nakasone promised that he had "no idea of introducing a large-scale" sales tax. While the Prime Minister will maintain that a 5% levy does not qualify as "large-scale," many Japanese consumers will resent the burden nonetheless. Some lawmakers are attacking the plan on more general grounds. Says Diet Member Shigeru Aoki: "The problem with this package is that it has no philosophy...
...channelers are clustered in the Pacific Northwest. The more established ones, like Knight and California-based Jack Pursel, who channels a rather likable spirit named Lazaris, have built up multi-million-dollar businesses to market themselves and their wisdom through weekend seminars and audio- and videocassettes. On a lesser scale, such channelers as Hossca Harrison ("Jonah") in Boulder, or Paul Tuttle ("Raj") in Bellingham, Wash., make a comfortable living through private and group consultations...
...Washington are closer than ever - but with the rest of Asia, particularly the countries that suffered under Japanese occupation, with which no consensus over the past has been achieved. Japan's military atrocities still enrage Chinese and Koreans, including ones born long after 1945, while many Japanese dispute the scale of their abuses, and see their country as the ultimate victim. Repeated efforts to forge a common view of the war through joint history commissions have gotten nowhere, and more than 60 years after it ended, a misplaced word about the war can still dynamite the region's fragile diplomatic...