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...Junichiro Koizumi's plan to privatize the three functions of Japan's $3 trillion postal system, including the world's largest savings bank, by 2017. A cornerstone of Koizumi's reform agenda, the bills were voted down by the Upper House in August, causing the Prime Minister to call snap elections for the Lower House aimed at silencing critics of the plan?even those in his own party. (The Lower House ratified the bill earlier last week, 338 to 138.) Koizumi called the Upper House vote "a miracle in politics...
...Hagan took the snap from center Frank Fernandez and appeared to be set on rolling left only to stop abruptly, look back right, and find an open Widman in the right side of the end zone...
...hurt! 12. Don’t keep walking around with your pants unzipped, asking members if they want to get acquainted with your “final club.” 13. ’Cause if you do, your punch season might be pretty short-lived. Oh, snap! 14. For those with friends of the opposite gender also punching, remember: it’s no coincidence that “Bee” rhymes with “Spee.” But it strikes some as very strange that neither rhymes with “coke...
...Hurt rushed for a career-high 149 yards and the Lafayette defense locked down Columbia’s offense for the last 58 minutes, giving up just 82 total yards and forcing three turnovers. Trailing 7-0, Lafayette (5-1) took advantage of a Columbia miscue, recovering a botched snap at the Columbia 37. Hurt carried for 25 yards and 11 yards on the first two plays and then busted into the end zone on the next snap to tie the game with 11:05 left in the first quarter. Hurt added another one-yard touchdown run in the third...
...raised voices bounceoff the latticed walls of the Abu Hanifa mosque in Baghdad, where hundreds of Sunnis have gathered for the first night of Ramadan. Korans snap shut, and heads turn toward the corner, where a quiet discussion among a group of Sunnis is getting contentious. The subject preoccupies Sunnis across Iraq: whether to vote in this week's referendum on a new constitution. "The best way for us to show our opposition is to boycott," says Majid al-Bayati, 63, a retired lawyer, as some congregants mutter approval. "It's a complete waste of time." Upon hearing this...