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Jordan was set to announce that he would return to the NBA after a brief foray in general management. Almonte was finally going to start school and pitch against kids his own age. The day before, Venus had defeated her younger sister in the U.S. Open in the first all-siblings final since...
...think our attractiveness is geared towards the new population of Cambridge, the people who have moved in after rent control, the younger, more affluent, maybe first-time condo owners,” said Jeff J. Chase, the chair of the Cambridge Libertarian City Committee...
...What Koizumi needs to do is win himself some allies in parliament?from among younger LDP legislators, perhaps, or even from the opposition. He was smart to sign up the young, hard-charging Nobuteru Ishihara to head up administrative reform in his Cabinet, and there are dozens of other younger pols, inside and out of the LDP, that he would be wise to court. But his natural aloofness makes it hard for him to reach out. And the few friends he has in politics are more likely to get him into trouble than out of it. Koizumi is close...
...tight-knit core of advisers who would guide him for three decades was already in place, led by his elder sister, Nobuko, who ran his Diet office; his younger brother, Masaya, who runs his Yokosuka home office; and Iijima, the political operative who takes care of his media and campaign strategies. What Koizumi lacked was the vital player in every politician's entourage: there was no Mrs. Koizumi. In 1977, the inner circle presented him with dozens of photos of potential spouses, which he stacked high on his parliamentary office desk. The one that caught...
...past 20 years, while in the Czech Republic, marriage rates have fallen by 23% over the last decade. What's more, increasing numbers of Europeans are choosing not to have children at all, a trend that not only promises some sizable demographic shifts in the years ahead (with fewer younger people around to shoulder the cost of supporting their generational forebears) but also could cause a growing schism between parents and nonparents about how government money for social services is allocated. "It's an explosion waiting to happen," says Frank Furedi, a reader in sociology at the University of Kent...