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Will Tommy Thompson or Mike Huckabee win your vote for U.S. president? While these two Republican candidates are relatively unknown, senior advisers for their campaigns contested that these dark-horse contenders will outlast the big-name politicians in the 2008 campaign at an Institute of Politics (IOP) forum yesterday. The event, part of the “Campaign 2008: Looking Ahead” series, featured top strategists for former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, former Ark. Governor Mike Huckabee, and former Wis. Governor Tommy Thompson. While the representatives for Huckabee and Thompson touted their candidates’ credentials, Gingrich?...
...reduce its speed. Lozano says his spotlight signal had proven effective in either stopping or turning around all other vehicles that night. When the vehicle passed the warning line and did not stop, Lozano says the soldiers at the checkpoint interpreted this as a hostile act by an unknown intruder. "Hey, this vehicle is coming too fast," Lozano recalls one of the soldiers saying...
...time of his breakthrough, Nakamura was an unknown engineer without a Ph.D. working for a tiny Japanese electronics company on Shikoku Island. His colleagues would tell him, "'You should quit. You wasted all our research money for 10 years,'" Nakamura remembers. "That just pissed me off. So I figured, if I'm going to quit anyway, I might as well do the research I've always wanted...
...myself on the line with the experiment of returning to my own country, which is not always the best thing to do in life. But the fact that you make a flop - that's not the whole story and will never be. Stepping into the unknown is extremely important - to go into areas that are not laid out and have not been walked upon, and of course have an element of danger. But if you look at it in another way, it nearly stopped my career...
...Japanese men were invited to benchmark themselves against the central character of Love Mum More Than Anyone-a TV drama series about an exemplary stay-at-home dad. Japan's print media has also decided that men need to be educated in a style of fathering hitherto unknown. Not long ago, the idea of a Japanese magazine about fathering might have been dismissed with a derisory snort. But last year saw the launch of two upscale glossies now duking it out for market share-Oceans and FQ. "The most frequent comment fathers make is, 'I've been waiting...