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...create an obedient rank and file, the New Komeito has one of the last great vote-gathering machines in Japan. Political analysts estimate that the New Komeito delivers between 20,000 and 30,000 votes in every major constituency (and many elections have been decided by only a few thousand ballots). Some 80% of LDP candidates who received New Komeito endorsement this time around were elected. In contrast, 55% of LDP candidates without the New Komeito imprimatur won their races. Says Jun Iio, professor of government at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo: "The LDP cannot remain...
...tired of idiotic, mushy love stories. To us, almost all the movies made in Hollywood are at least interesting. I have been watching U.S. movies since I was 13. Hollywood has an endless list of fantastic actors. There are no idiotic coincidences in the movies, and there are a thousand different plots. I don't know why Westerners should care about Bollywood films when they have such a treasure trove. B. Krishna Chaitanya Madras, India...
Fitzpatrick is not the first high-caliber quarterback to teach Mazza a thing or two—he spent two of his years at Thousand Oaks High School in California playing with the No. 1 high school quarterback in the country, Ben Olson. He’s quick to acknowledge, however, that college is a whole new ballgame...
...More than ever, al-Qaeda has become a network of networks, a loose association of a variety of different organizations. A few thousand core operatives who have sworn loyalty to Bin Laden may today function as trainers-of-trainers, and capitalizing on Bin Laden's years of investment in training and funding for tens of thousands of the footsoldiers of localized Islamist movements throughout the Arab world and among Muslims from China to Chechnya, East Africa to Southeast Asia. And the U.S. invasion of Iraq has dramatically boosted the growth potential of this more diffuse jihadi movement over which...
...story, about a young American woman drifting in New Delhi after the death of her married Indian lover, Freudenberger hits the telling detail again and again, as when her narrator looks at the Taj Mahal and catches "the unexpected view of something everyone in the world has seen a thousand times." In The Orphan, Alice muses that Bangkok is "like a dream of Los Angeles," which at the same time "reminds her of the Mexican Day of the Dead." The loose anarchy of every visitor's first experience of Bangkok mirrors the emotional chaos engulfing her characters. When the narrator...