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...summit goes well, though, Fukuda could yet turn around his struggling administration. Abe, his predecessor, was most popular right after his successful visit to Beijing in October 2006. Similar good vibrations could give the current Prime Minister time to reshuffle his Cabinet and survive until July, when the spotlight will be on Japan as it hosts a G-8 summit. That could "slow the erosion of [Fukuda's] support," Curtis says. "That's what he has to do if he's going to stay in office much longer." Says Phil Deans, an international-affairs expert and assistant dean at Temple...
...series of bombings rocked predominantly Sunni areas of Baghdad over the weekend, threatening to draw al-Qaeda back into the capital's spotlight, just as Iraqi and American military commanders announced limited progress made on another fiery front line. For the last month, the attention of the Iraqi and American militaries shifted in large part from Sunni insurgents to the Shi'ite Mahdi Army. With daily car bombings and IEDs still lower in Sunni areas of the capital than they were a year ago, officials are hesitant to declare a return of al-Qaeda just yet. But with all eyes...
...forth a very basic conception of sex politics—that we should not conflate gender and sexuality. But to merely abandon the mainstream medium is not a guarantee virtue. Alas, Shvarts should have been dismissed as an attention-seeking ninny, but instead she was launched into the national spotlight. Just how far has our bar fallen? The rush to affirm our commitment to social progressivism on college campuses has sadly left us in an abyss.Lucy M. Caldwell ’09 is a history and literature concentrator in Adams House. Her column appears on alternate Fridays...
Every morning the newspapers are waiting for me on the breakfast table. The crossword puzzle is filled in, and my husband is upstairs in his office. I take the papers and my second mug of coffee to the living room. The little girl dog lies in a spotlight on the rug. At ten o'clock, I go upstairs to my study, a former sunporch with nine windows and never enough bookshelves...
...what we did very well,” Irvine says, though he admits that “certainly some of the details weren’t quite accurate or truthful.” Kaplan agrees, noting that the media backlash is actually a positive indication of being in the spotlight. “I think he made the right decision,” Kaplan says. “He wrote a New York Times bestseller that ended up being made into a Hollywood blockbuster. Can’t say he did anything wrong.” In spite of this...