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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...much so that it could wrest control of government from Aso's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) for the first time in decades in the next general election. There has been speculation that Aso might call an election in May or June to take advantage of a political-contributions scandal surrounding DPJ leader Ichiro Ozawa, but no decision has been made. An election must be held by October...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Reprieve for Japan's Embattled Leader? | 4/3/2009 | See Source »

...insurance man's credo that propelled American International Group into a global powerhouse. Greenberg grew up with the now infamous company, becoming a world business power who dined with heads of state and influenced international trade policy - until risk caught up to him four years ago. An accounting scandal forced him to step down from his beloved company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Washington Looks to AIG's Greenberg for Help | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...timely story line, a scandal-plagued CEO (Frasier's John Mahoney) pays Paul in cash and offers him "bonuses" as a way to exercise control. "One thing I learned from my father: pay as you go," he says. "It's cleaner that way." (Dad turns out not to have been such a good role model.) And Hope Davis is edgily mesmerizing as a self-destructive lawyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Treatment's New Crop of Head Cases | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...right to legislate control over her own body seems almost too perfect a coincidence. For many of us, the words that the protesters use to describe the university’s decision in their online petition—“outrage,” “scandal,” and “travesty”—would better connote the curtailing of federal funding for safe abortion procedures, the outlawing of taxpayer-funded stem-cell research, or the barring of marriage equality than the sins they attribute to Obama. Moreover, not every commencement speaker...

Author: By Emma M. Lind | Title: The Right To Choose (and to Protest) | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...should not necessarily refuse to support it. Such a defense, mounted by every progressive Catholic politician since, clearly indicates that “truth” imposes no obligation if public opinion and the machinations of well-funded lobbyists are not fortuitously aligned. That shameful episode, a source of scandal to faithful Catholics even today, threatens to repeat itself...

Author: By Christopher B. Lacaria | Title: Obama and the Fightin’ Irish | 4/1/2009 | See Source »

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