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COMMENTARY

Feb 24, 2001

Mori's lame-duck maneuvers

By Keizo Nabeshima

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori is coming under increasing pressure to resign. One likely scenario, according to sources in the ruling coalition, goes something like this: In early March, after the fiscal 2001 government budget clears the Lower House, he announces his intention to step down, and later that...

COMMENTARY

Feb 23, 2001

Time running out for Mori

By Kenzo Uchida

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori's departure is inevitable, although he insists he has no intention of resigning. The questions are no longer if but when he will step down, and who will replace him.

EDITORIALS

Feb 23, 2001

Explain the collision

A troubling picture is beginning to emerge as details are revealed about conditions aboard the USS Greeneville when the submarine hit the training vessel Ehime Maru last week. That accident left nine students and instructors aboard the fisheries training ship missing -- they are presumed dead -- and...

COMMENTARY / World

Feb 23, 2001

India's census will only confirm the obvious: the nation is overpopulated

By Gautaman Bhaskaran

The ongoing census in India, the sixth since its independence in 1947, is bound to unfold an ocean of data, perhaps bewildering to an outsider given the country's complex social and caste divisions.

COMMENTARY / World

Feb 22, 2001

Irian Jaya's valleys of death

By Lily Anh

By dusk, Indonesian Army Corp. Sahrudin was dead, hunted to exhaustion and pierced through the chest and side with three long arrows. Next to him, lower jaw ripped away and back of his head blown off by Sahrudin's dying shot, lay Bambier Wenda, 35, a West Papuan guerrilla fighter and Dani tribesman....

EDITORIALS

Feb 22, 2001

BINDing the Internet

Security experts recently made an unprecedented appeal to computer system administrators to update software to protect the Internet. The warning highlights the vulnerabilities of the digital era. Security flaws continue to be the Achilles Heel of the information revolution. There is little sign that...

COMMENTARY / WASHINGTON UPDATE

Feb 22, 2001

Selling tax cuts to Congress

By Bob Keefe

U.S. President George W. Bush continues his attempt to make friends and influence important constituencies. He has spent more time with the Congressional Black Caucus than with the Republican leadership. He has traveled to schools to promote his education priorities. He has been to small businesses explaining...

EDITORIALS

Feb 22, 2001

Game over for Dreamcast

Sega recently announced that it will stop producing its Dreamcast video-game console. The move is a bitter blow for the company, which has been a technology leader since it entered the business over a decade ago, and for players who thrive on Dreamcast games. Fortunately for both fans and shareholders,...

COMMENTARY

Feb 21, 2001

Japan-U.S. ties: lost at sea?

By Tom Plate

LOS ANGELES -- The Japanese people are angry about a lot of things these days, not just their soggy economy. They are angry about the collision of a U.S. submarine with a Japanese fisheries ship off Hawaii. They are angry about their prime minister, Yoshiro Mori, who incredibly continued with a golf...

COMMENTARY / World

Feb 21, 2001

India's barbaric idea of school discipline

By Gautaman Bhaskaran

Corporal punishment has no place in a civilized society. Yet a recent High Court judgment in the southern Indian state of Kerala recently upheld the legitimacy of this method of punishing a child.

COMMENTARY / World

Feb 21, 2001

Unequal treatment in the Middle East

By David Hirst

Beirut -- The Israelis have just elected a prime minister who, brought before the bar of international justice, would surely be judged a war criminal in the class of, say, Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb commander who is as firmly associated with the Srebrenica massacre as Gen. Ariel Sharon was with that...

EDITORIALS

Feb 21, 2001

The G7 prescription for Japan

With signs of a slowdown in the U.S. economy casting a shadow over the global economy, the Group of Seven finance ministers and central-bank governors who gathered in Palermo, Italy, last weekend emphasized the need for coordinated action to ensure sustainable growth worldwide. That appeal for cooperation,...

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