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...legislators in the two houses of Japan's parliament. Koizumi's reforms are being nibbled to death, the victims of both local politics, as in Yamaguchi's case, and Japan's powerful factions and their heavyweight constituents. As for highway construction projects, Koizumi actually won approval to privatize the state-run companies that oversee road building. But members of the LDP, pushed by their construction company patrons, demanded assurances that the fate of each of the more than 2,000 proposed projects will be voted on by the Diet, one by one, which means that most of these roads...
...banner reading FALUN GONG IS GOOD and in seconds were carted away by police. Three days later, more than 40 foreign demonstrators raced through the square as police chased them past astonished Chinese tourists who were spending the weeklong holiday in the capital. The foreigners had come, said the state-run Xinhua news agency, "to undermine the happy atmosphere of the Spring Festival...
...That's not how the state-run system works today. Only two teams, the Sina Lions and the Beijing Olympians, are privately held. The rest are either partially or wholly owned by government entities (the August 1 Rockets team is fielded by the People's Liberation Army). Each is expected to subsist mainly on an annual allowance doled out by the league. This year the stipend is $133,000 per team, which is supposed to help cover player salaries, food, equipment and travel for a 26-game schedule, plus play-offs. It doesn't go far. One poverty-stricken club...
President Vladimir Putin lauds Russia's industrial growth of 5.7% over the past year. Official statistics, released earlier this month, claim 5.9% growth in average income. Listening to these accounts on state-run TV, I should feel comforted. But once I go shopping, or start paying my bills, I'm beginning to feel like Putin and I live in two different countries. The government estimates 2001 inflation at 18.6%. But the real costs of living have gone far beyond that. As of the beginning of this year, prices started climbing further. The monthly rate for home telephones has gone...
...British India. The Pakistani government has never had an official presence there, and many of the tribesmen who rule Tirah are deeply conservative supporters of the Taliban and Osama bin Laden. But of late, Pakistani military helicopters have been buzzing over the frontier while soldiers patrol on foot. State-run Pakistan Television has broadcast pictures of locals eagerly assisting soldiers as they arrived, but those who know the valley believe they will not take kindly to an armed presence. Given local sympathies, if bin Laden could make it there, he might be well protected...