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Despite such experiments, Japanese firms may find it hard to restore the glory days. That's because today 1 in 3 Japanese workers is part-time; younger employees in particular tend to value mobility over job security. Indeed, during Koyama's Saturday-night drinking session, employee Eri Shimoda confides that his co-workers "feel like family." Yet most of those who attend the party say that, warm and fuzzy sentiment aside, they plan to leave within a few years. "Work is just work," says one of them. No amount of free sake, it seems, can convince today's young salarymen...
...policy problems and that Democratic leader Harry Reid has exploited a rule--known as invoking cloture--to cut off debate. So far in 2007, the Senate has voted on cloture 43 times. If that pace continues, it will shatter the record of 61 votes in a two-year Senate session, set in the 107th Congress. And ill feelings between the parties will further harden...
Uptight and upset: here are two scenes from the last World Cup, in 2003. Three weeks out, the All Blacks held an open training session in Nelson, atop New Zealand's South Island. As the players turned it on for the 5,000 spectators, TIME's reporter asked squad official Matt McIlraith for a brief interview with the coach, John Mitchell, who was overseeing practice the way a chess master examines the board. While he didn't quite scoff, McIlraith made it clear there was precisely zero chance of the request being granted. Mitchell wasn't feeding the chooks anymore...
...Shinzo Abe. Since the elections of last September, he has lost four cabinet ministers to political scandals; control of the upper house of parliament; and 40 approval rating percentage points. Now, in an attempt to right his ailing Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and prepare for a tumultuous fall Diet session, Abe has reshuffled his cabinet, bringing in a host of veteran politicians to regain voter confidence...
...they planned to discuss the country's future and the need for elections and reform, according to the director of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, I.A. Rehman, who had traveled to the capital from Lahore for the meeting. But as the group sat down to begin the afternoon session they could hear the cries of rioters clashing with police outside the controversial Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, less than a mile away...