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...Rarely has a man so nicely matched his hour. A third-generation politician, Koizumi toiled for decades in relative obscurity in the Diet until he unexpectedly vaulted to power in 2001 on a platform that promised sweeping economic reforms. Unfortunately, Koizumi's record has fallen far short of his grand promises, but that's largely due to the stiff opposition he has encountered from old-guard LDP members, whose constituencies have long benefited from exactly the kind of pork-barrel programs Koizumi has been trying to do away with. But now, with many of his staunchest opponents finally ousted, Koizumi...
...weekend’s invitational, which was unscored, saw several other Harvard representatives win individual events. Freshman Becky Christensen won the high jump with a mark of 1.71 meters and junior Mary Serdakowski won the 60-meter hurdles with a 9.12 time. In the women’s pole vault, sophomore Clara Blattler and freshman Sally Stanton took first and second for the Crimson. Senior Travis led the men with a first-place finish in the triple jump (14.97 meters) and a second-place in the long jump (5.82 meters). Junior Sean Barrett won the men?...
Sophomore Sally Stanton won the pole vault event, while senior Stevie DeGroff won the 60-meter dash...
...memorized their narrative outrages, their graphic ingenuity; saved them in meticulous stacks or mold-resistant wrappers. Then he hears his mother say she was cleaning up the basement and "I threw that junk out." Junk! the child cries. Those yellowing pages of newsprint, those copies of Mad and Vault of Horror and Weird Science were my obsession, my vocation, my youth...
...photographed, with attention given to such identifiers as long-healed scars, birthmarks and tattoos. Fingerprinting and dental imaging follow before the forensic specialists collect samples of DNA, preferably a sliver of bone. Then the dead are returned to their body bags to be stored in a refrigerated receiving vault until the Federal Emergency Management Agency can get the remains back to Louisiana for the formal process of identification...