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...economic link between feeling safe and feeling confident. In a March 7 interview with TIME in Tokyo, Ichiro Ozawa, the leader of the opposition Democratic Party of Japan and the front runner to be Japan's next Prime Minister (if he can avoid the fallout from a scandal over political fundraising), said "giving a sense of security to the population" was key to economic recovery. Ozawa argues that only if families feel that their basic needs have been taken care of - needs like health care and provision for retirement - will they go out and spend money on new cars...
...First, that scandal, which could yet derail his progress. On March 3, Ozawa's chief secretary, Takanori Okubo, was arrested by the Tokyo District Prosecutor's office on charges of taking, and falsely reporting, illegal political donations from dummy corporations linked to the company Nishimatsu Construction. The donations are alleged to have been funneled through Ozawa's political fund. In a March 7 interview with TIME, Ozawa said that he was "very surprised" by the arrest, and that the case involved merely "errors in the statement of political fundraising records" of the sort that in the past required only...
...peace meeting. But it turned into a bloodbath. At least 32 people were killed - including security officials as well as two Iraqi television journalists - and dozens were wounded after a suicide bomber detonated his explosives belt in the crowd. (See pictures of the aftershocks of the 2004 Abu Ghraib scandal...
...Privacy advocates point to a scandal in the state of Maryland, where last summer it was revealed that in 2005 and 2006 undercover members of the Maryland State Police had carried out surveillance of war protesters and death penalty opponents. Some of the intelligence gathered on the subjects, according to logs obtained by the ACLU last summer, may have found its way into databases shared with local, national and federal agencies through the state's fusion center. An investigation found the data collection represented a serious lapse in judgment, but the victims had little recourse, except public outrage...
...documents and staff remained present throughout the viewing). "I made the mistake of not addressing it earlier," Dodd concedes. Still, he will not allow reporters to deeply examine the "hundreds of pages" of mortgage documents, saying, "No one has ever showed as much as we have." But the scandal has left a bad taste with Connecticut voters; in the Quinnipiac poll, 56% said the Countrywide connection made them less likely to vote for Dodd...