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Since Heizo Takenaka was appointed Japan's Financial Services Minister five weeks ago, he's been remarkably blunt about what was needed to straighten out the country's overextended, reform-proof banks, those black holes that continue to suck the life out of Japan's economy. A hard landing was required, he said. Hopeless loans?Xthere are at least $420 billion worth of them?Xhad to be sold off on the cheap or written off once and for all. In addition, the government would have to take over banks that were insolvent by any definition other than that of wishful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Twiddling Their Thumbs | 11/4/2002 | See Source »

...Washington's strategic plate is full. The U.S. faces the task of uprooting al-Qaeda in some 60 countries, and is trying to hold together an Afghanistan subject to enormous centrifugal forces. The Israel-Palestine morass can suck in the U.S. at any moment. There are probably nukes in North Korea. And America is poised to invade Iraq?a country the size of Germany?with no discernible exit plan and little clear idea about how the Muslim world will respond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Be Pragmatic is Glorious | 10/28/2002 | See Source »

...There were 400 guy basketball fans, and they were all yelling ‘HARVARD... HARVARD... HARVARD...You suck!’” said sophomore setter Kim Gould...

Author: By Lande A. Spottswood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Volleyball Still Holds Ivy Lead Despite Split | 10/28/2002 | See Source »

...Arrive at CBGB’s. Load in equipment and anxiously prepare for performance. Suck down two Red Stripes and the sad realization that the bands don’t drink for free...

Author: By Jacob Rubin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Adventures in Enthusiastic Idiocy | 10/24/2002 | See Source »

Tina: I do dance, mostly choreography. Recently I started Tae Kwon Do but I suck...

Author: By Rina Fujii, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Return of the Fashion Dialogue | 10/24/2002 | See Source »

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