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...repeated visits to the Yasukuni Shrine, Japan's relations with China and South Korea are worse than they've been in decades. It's possible that Abe, who visited Yasukuni in the past and has questioned the validity of the Tokyo trials of Japan's wartime leaders, will worsen the damage. "There's a lot of apprehension in Seoul and Beijing about whether Abe will be as hard-line as his reputation," says Peter Beck, Northeast Asia project director for the International Crisis Group...
...Hillary were to win, the division between Republicans and Democrats would worsen. Republican men tend to be fearful of strong women. I foresee nothing but war on the home front for the whole term. It might be better for Hillary to run as Vice President on a ticket with a presidential candidate who can bring both parties together...
...occupying university campuses, on strike from classes, in protest of a new labor law, known as the Contrat Première Embauche. The law will allow employers to fire workers under 26 within a two-year trial period without advance notice. People opposed to the law fear it will worsen the already bleak job market for the younger generation. Harvard students studying abroad in France expressed mixed reactions about how the riots were affecting them. “At first I was slightly annoyed,” said Kate Wang ’07, who is studying at the Sorbonne...
...Even though Islamists have been winning elections in Iraq, the Palestinian territories and Egypt, Rice has sworn not to soft-pedal the touchy subject of President Bush's democracy agenda during this trip. She says she is more convinced than ever that instability in the Middle East will only worsen if politics remain polarized between authoritarian governments and violent extremists, and she is determined to use her own bully pulpit to exhort the region's governments to make a space for non-violent mainstream opposition parties and candidates...
When Gintell argued that lower ceilings would worsen acoustics in the hall, Healy responded sharply: “You are not going to design this building...