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...productive, and that ensure consumers can consume. Those policies are not in place today. The country is a de facto gerontocracy that has failed to adapt to today's economic and demographic realities. Japan must redefine its goals and, at a deeper level, rewrite its social contract so that youth are better served...
...Sethi's engrossing if uneven debut is written in astoundingly assured prose that belies the author's youth (he is 25), particularly in his throbbing takes of contemporary Lahore, where he grew up and returned to after his undergrad years at Harvard. He describes everything from the "mewl of bargainers" at a fabric shop to card games played by bored guards at gated homes like the one in which middle-class narrator Zaki Shirazi lives. Also in the house are three related women whose lives mirror the tottering arc of recent Pakistani history - from partition to the bruised Bhutto years...
...political storm. The same day that national television aired footage of mourners at the village of Siaolin, where some 400 people are thought to be buried by mudslides, Ma appeared on the evening news wearing a cheerful blue-and-white baseball cap and polo shirt at Taiwan's World Youth Baseball Championship. It was not the President's only faux pas. Earlier that week, Ma told reporters that residents living in Morakot's path were not "well prepared," pinning the slow evacuation on the victims and showing an aloofness that stood in sharp contrast for many Taiwan people...
...often ignored wider French society. The system has made reform nearly impossible and is now "sclerotic," according to Julien Bayou, 29, one of the half-dozen or so people at the core of France's new protest movement. "Thirteen percent of people in France live in poverty, youth unemployment is above 25%, and the number of people who can't keep up with the price of rent and food continues to rise. We're caught in the middle of all that, so we had to find a more efficient way to deal with it than the usual method of marching...
...marginalized residents of France's blighted housing projects. Delli, who grew up in a poor area herself, says that's why the movement cuts across class and racial lines. "Our array of single-issue causes actually looks more like a checklist of problems - like economic chaos, mass youth unemployment, global warming and falling expectations - that this generation is having to face for the first time," says Delli. "New challenges require new responses." And in France, it helps if it's done with a little flair...