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...Although she was used to writing around 100 text messages daily, Okiyama never expected that thumbing her keypad would enable her to become one of the country's hot new writers. "I had never written a story," she admits. "I had never liked reading either." But when a close friend offered her own life experiences to Okiyama as the basis for a keitai shosetsu, Okiyama realized that she had everything she needed at her fingertips. "I never had the idea of how an authentic novel should be, so that might be why I could do it," she says. "I simply...
...They should either kill me or organize a second round of elections.' LEVAN GACHECHILADZE, Georgian opposition leader, after his resounding defeat by pro-Western incumbent Mikhail Saakashvili in the country's Jan. 5 Presidential elections. Gachechiladze claimed the voting was rigged...
Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton edged out Illinois Sen. Barack Obama in the New Hampshire primary yesterday, giving the New York politician a crucial win in her quest to become the first female candidate to be nominated by either major party. In the Republican race, Sen. John McCain defeated former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney, repeating his win in the state that launched the Arizona veteran’s strong showing in the 2000 presidential primaries. Clinton’s victory, by a three point margin with 96 percent of precints reporting, came less than a week after Obama won the Iowa...
...Another challenge will come when Congress returns to session full-time and some of Obama's allies (and enemies) in Washington try to organize votes that they believe will either help (or hurt) the front-runner. Obama is a sitting senator and will have to spend some time in the capital. But, added one adviser, "He oughta stay out of Washington as much...
Independent analysts, however, remain skeptical. Mark Heller, director of research at Tel Aviv University's Institute for National Security Studies, contends that the gaps on core issues - boundaries, Jerusalem, refugees, water resources, and security arrangements - had hardly been narrowed, let alone overcome. He questions whether the leadership on either side - with Olmert presiding over a shaky coalition and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas contending with the radical Islamists of Hamas who control the Gaza Strip - have the ability to "take the body politic by the scruff of the neck and shake...