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...fact, Koizumi knew early defeat. He lost his first election in 1969, an embarrassing failure to fill his father's seat. The future Prime Minister was sent off to work for an L.D.P. heavyweight, Takeo Fukuda. Koizumi answered the phone, ran errands and dusted Fukuda's shoes. He finally took his father's place in 1972, but the years with Fukuda were well spent. For an L.D.P. baron, Fukuda was famously incorruptible, and Koizumi watched his mentor lose power to factions of the party that had perfected pork-barrel politics. Koizumi today rants about the waste in government spending largely...
...After that electoral defeat, Koizumi signed up as an assistant to an LDP heavyweight, Takeo Fukuda. The job involved answering the phone, greeting guests, running errands and even dusting Fukuda's shoes. It was Koizumi's political boot camp. His antiestablishment streak developed under Fukuda, himself a bright, squeaky-clean policy wonk who frequently took on the LDP's most powerful clique, headed by Kakuei Tanaka and filled with politicians with cozy ties to special interest groups like construction bosses, farmers and war veterans. This is the faction most dependent on pork-barrel politics, campaign war chests and the obtaining...
...former Cowboys player personnel director Gil Brandt had the wildy talented but untamed Moss much further down on their draft boards. Sure enough, 19 teams passed on him before the Vikings scored one of the biggest steals in recent drafts. (The Bengals passed on Moss twice, selecting linebackers Takeo Spikes and Brian Simmons.) Only the Titans took a receiver in those first 20 picks, making Utah's Kevin Dyson the answer to a trivia question...
...Takeo's doing the parapara, and it seems like just about everyone is following his lead. The sound of parapara is the heavy, synthesized, Eurobeat-style dance music that rules the Japanese charts. (One-hit wonder Aqua beat out Eminem, Britney and Christina Aquilera on the Japanese charts last year.). Trendy teen mags print full-page diagrams showing the motions that have been created for each new parapara song. Nightspots like Tokyo's hugely popular Twinstar distribute their own how-to parapara videos. Elementary school kids perform the moves at school events and, the ultimate Japanese pop-culture imprimatur, even...
...liquored-up teens and 20-somethings, you'd expect a little sexual tension. Instead, there's a vibe of intense concentration, almost studiousness, as the guys and girls, many with matching dyed-blond locks, go through the parapara motions between the tables and chairs, while staring at pros like Takeo and his buddy Kio up on stage...