Word: touche
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...Meanwhile, in his first four months in office, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has seemed out of touch with the national mood. While Japanese say they're most worried about stagnant wages, a fragile pension system and growing social disparities, Abe has chosen to prioritize plans to revise Japan's pacifist constitution. While parents fret about declining academic standards, Abe's response has been to pass a reform bill that will attempt to make children more patriotic, and may bring back physical punishment to schools. "I'm not sure that constitutional revision should be the No. 1 issue," says Sadakazu Tanigaki...
...urged Japanese women to have more children (the current fertility rate is 1.29 children per woman), appealing to traditional family values while also promising to boost child-care support. But his administration has still managed to appear insensitive and out of touch on the issue. In a Jan. 27 speech exhorting them to have more children, Health Minister Hakuo Yanagisawa referred to Japanese women as "baby-making machines." The minister quickly apologized, but Abe's critics seized on the incident-and on Abe's refusal to fire Yanagisawa-as evidence that the administration can't handle the demographic issue...
...sometimes seemed as if her physique, her creation, was all she had left. In 2004 she appeared at the American Music Awards, fingering her cleavage and slurring, "Like my body?" Some people called it an intoxicated rant, others a lost girl's plea for love. But is there a touch of professional pride in there too? This is my life's work, she seems to tell us. This what I made for you. I did a good job. Didn...
...unless called upon to do so by the Undergraduate Council.” After sending an e-mail to the hotline, students will receive a response confirming their submission and providing further information about the hotline. Within 48 hours of an e-mail, the teaching board will be in touch with students, informing them of the strategy that will be employed in addressing the reported issue. And by the two-week mark, students will again be contacted, this time with information on the progress made towards resolving the targeted concern. For recently inaugurated UC leaders Ryan A. Petersen...
...experience of looking at her girlish parts aims to leave the student with a new sense of ownership over her genitalia. I suppose not all of us read Deenie as preteen girls—you know, that Judy Blume book that taught us it was okay that we touch ourselves—but did a Harvard undergraduate really need a roomful of other women to facilitate her revelation...