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...meets girl, girl turns out to be his mother, boy kills father. Sophocles told it 2,400 years ago, as have many authors since. But few have tackled the Oedipal tale with as much wit, verve and retail success as Japan's Haruki Murakami has in Kafka on the Shore. The book sold 550,000 copies in its first month on his home soil in 2002, inspiring a sequel comprised of selections from the 8,870 e-mail critiques Murakami received and his 1,220 replies. Kafka has become a best seller in Germany, South Korea and China...
Social Security isn't the only retirement program in line for a makeover. Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, saying "our country must act now," outlined bold plans to shore up the nation's ailing private pension system last week. She's walking a fine line between restoring its health and scaring companies out of the programs altogether. Among the tough measures she has proposed: a 58% hike in insurance premiums that private pension sponsors must pay. The Bush Administration also suggested a seven-year deadline for all pensions to be fully funded and called for even stiffer premiums for companies whose...
...Zeng Qinghong. The Party's General Office, for instance, which controls the daily flow of memos and intelligence, remains in the grip of Jiang appointee Wang Gang. Until Hu maneuvers more of his own people into key political positions, the President must watch his step. "Most leaders have to shore up their credibility with the Party's Old Guard before moving forward," says Anthony Saich, director of the Asia program at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. "Even Zhao went along with the political rhetoric of his day by criticizing 'bourgeois liberalism' before launching new political reforms...
With time running short and many Iraqis afraid to vote, the U.S. is scrambling to shore up security in critical areas. In the so-called Sunni triangle, Pentagon officials say, U.S. and Iraqi forces conduct about 1,000 foot patrols every day. "We are definitely on the offensive," says a Pentagon official. In Baghdad the 1st Cavalry Division has brought in two battalions from the ??lite 82nd Airborne and extended the rotation of its own 2nd Brigade, adding about 5,000 troops. On election day, the job of providing security at 5,900 polling stations nationwide will fall mainly...
...villas the family had rented was on high enough ground to avoid the waves, but Chen said she feels lucky that her family did not remain on the shore...