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...Mutual interest may not be enough. Though China has downplayed Abe's recent attempts to rewrite Japan's wartime history, Yasukuni remains a redline for Beijing. Eventually Abe will come under pressure from his conservative base to stand up to China, as Koizumi did, and visit Yasukuni. At the same time the Chinese government could face anger at home should it be seen as playing too nice with Tokyo. The past is never really past in Asia, but Japan and China have enough genuine challenges in front of them without being weighed down by what's behind...
Investors had good reason to be skeptical. Golf is a notoriously hermetic industry, dominated by a handful of top clubmakers with the advantage of years of tradition and a loyal customer base. Nike signed Tiger Woods before it had so much as a golf ball to put into his hands. But over the past decade, Nike Golf has introduced 10 lines of clubs, 10 series of balls, several styles of golf shoes, and an array of course-worthy golf apparel worn by the 22 swoosh-wielding players on the tour. With the number of golfers in the U.S. flat over...
...deliberately try to delay flights. Flights from Turkey often get canceled when there's a public dispute between Kurdish and Turkish politicians. And all flights in and out of Kurdish Iraq still have to receive clearance from both the civil-aviation authority in Baghdad and the American air base in Qatar...
...police attacked a joint M.D.C.-Christian march. Tsvangirai was taken into custody and beaten savagely. Since 2000, Mugabe has also encouraged mobs to invade farms owned by the country's remaining white residents, who number in the tens of thousands and mainly back the opposition. The M.D.C.'s principal base is in the urban slums, so Mugabe destroyed many of them, forcing millions of shanty dwellers into the streets or exile. The opposition called a general strike on April 2, but it's hard for a strike to have much impact when many of its potential supporters are outside...
...don’t know if you’ve taken any base statistics,” said UC representative Justin M. Orlosky ’09 during the floor debate. “[The survey] did sort of lead the reader towards the answers that we wanted to see.... There are good surveys and bad surveys, and I think that...