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...sources of this paralysis are somewhat different in the two countries. In Japan, a combination of highly constraining social patterns, consensus-based decision-making and an ossified political process have suppressed new ideas and made the country resistant to change. In the U.S., there is no shortage of fresh thinking, debate and outrage - the paralysis is caused by a lack of consensus on how problems should be tackled. There are too many people in positions of power who seem to believe no real change is necessary, or that it can just be put off, for political purposes, to another...
...finally seems ready for something new. Voters last year tossed out the Liberal Democrats, who had governed almost uninterrupted since 1955. The new sheriff in town is Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama of the Democratic Party of Japan. He's at least talking new ideas: reforming the government, improving the social safety net, cozying up to Asia. But his options are constrained by the mess built up over two decades of inaction. He's confronting an unsustainable fiscal position and an economy with deteriorating competitiveness. Perhaps America's political leaders should ask Hatoyama for some advice. Don't wait, he might...
Stone Cold Steve Austin made an appearance in Cambridge on Friday to grill burgers and throw back a couple of drinks at The Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine...
...That Italians were able to do so is a testament to the country's changing media landscape, in which social-networking websites have emerged as an alternative to an information industry long tied to the government, political parties and industrialists. To pay for his production, Santoro put the word out through Facebook and other social media sites, recruiting 50,000 people who paid €2.50 ($3.33) apiece. Corporate sponsors provided the Internet and satellite feeds. "The last time Santoro was off the air he was basically unplugged," says Bernhard Warner, director of Custom Communications, a London-based social media consultancy...
...reform battle in the last year is that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, now signed into law, managed to pass through both chambers of Congress without a single Republican voting “Yea.” In comparison, another landmark bill passed 75 years ago, the Social Security Act of 1935, passed the House 372 votes to 33, with 81 Republicans voting in support. Thirty years later in 1965, the Medicaid and Medicare amendments were added with a House margin of 307-to-116, with 70 Republicans voting in favor...