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...South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun told Koizumi that his visits were "totally unacceptable" and China?s ambassador to Japan recently said that a China-Japan summit, which has not happened since 2001, would only take place once "political obstacles" had been overcome. In Japan, debate over who should succeed Koizumi has thus far been framed, almost exclusively, on the candidates? views on Yasukuni. Shinzo Abe, 51, the charismatic front-runner, has courted conservatives by vehemently defending a prime minister's right to worship wherever he likes - although he has recently become coy about whether he would go to Yasukuni...
...policies in print. The final rupture occurred a year later when Taft's Attorney General filed an antitrust suit against the U.S. Steel Corp. because of a 1907 acquisition that Roosevelt had personally approved. T.R. was outraged. The decision to challenge Taft soon followed. T.R.'s campaign would not succeed, but the ideals that he and his Bull Moose Party enunciated in 1912 would resonate in American political life for decades. They still do. They shaped much of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal and influenced domestic policy until the 1980s, when the Reagan Revolution began dismantling social programs. Even...
...supreme sense of the great future in store for the U.S. No one was ever more certain of the nation's destiny. Few Presidents were more formidable in shaping it. More than that, he gave the nation a picture of itself as a place that could not fail to succeed, because it produced people who were vigorous and commanding--people like Teddy Roosevelt. It's not just that he was excited to be an American. He made it more exciting...
...remains a dirty word, says Skilling. As well, there has not been a willingness to experiment, boldly or persistently. New Zealand, burned by previous government follies, remains risk-averse. Third, the country has wasted a decade by not building broad political support for the new direction it needs to succeed under globalization; three-year election cycles don't help lawmakers to focus beyond small-view politics...
RELINQUISHING. Bill Gates, 50, Microsoft chairman and co-founder; his day-to-day responsibilities running the software giant, as of July 2008; in Redmond, Washington. The move will leave executives Steve Ballmer and Ray Ozzie, whom Gates named to succeed him as chief software architect, to face challenges from competitors such as Google that provide user-friendly software over the Internet. Gates, a 2005 TIME Person of the Year, said he plans to focus more on philanthropic work...