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...intentions are." At the same time, Koizumi's most ardent fans-especially the young, unaffiliated voters he lured back into politics-reject Abe as a conservative relic. "His popularity has fallen because he's not perceived as being radical enough," says Robert Feldman, chief Japan economist for Morgan Stanley. Feldman argues that Abe has actually been a much more aggressive reformer than he has been given credit for, citing the PM's willingness to challenge the power of Japan's entrenched bureaucracy behind the scenes. "He has created competition within government that is even better than what Koizumi did," Feldman...
...Hector tells Andromache in the sixth book of the Iliad, who ‘must see to the fighting,’” explains the Stanley I. Sheerr Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, in the opening of a breezy 1990 tract entitled “Altars of Sacrifice: Confederate Women and the Narratives...
With the recent transaction, Harvard joins the ranks of investment firms such as Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, and Barclays Global Investors in holding one of the largest chunks of Blockbuster stock...
...same can't be said for others. "Obama's mother is of white U.S. stock. His father is a black Kenyan," Stanley Crouch recently sniffed in a New York Daily News column entitled "What Obama Isn't: Black Like Me." "Black, in our political and social vocabulary, means those descended from West African slaves," wrote Debra Dickerson on the liberal website Salon. Writers like TIME and New Republic columnist Peter Beinart have argued that Obama is seen as a "good black," and thus has less of following among black people. Meanwhile, agitators like Al Sharpton are seen as the authentic...
Eugene and Stanley are calming each other after a too-dose-to-home radio sketch has alienated their father. Eugene ashamedly admits he meant the parallels, adding, "There's part of my head that makes me this nice, likable, funny kid. And there's the other part, the part that writes, that's an angry, hostile, real son of a bitch." Stanley retorts, "Well, you'd better make friends with the son of a bitch because he's the one who's going to make you a big living...