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...Junichiro Koizumi is a career politician and a third-generation LDP man, the grandson of a former head of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications and a former minister of Health and Welfare under the man he beat out in this election, Ryutaro Hashimoto. Yet Koizumi ran for prime minister in 1995 without support from the party faithful. He has wavy hair, fiery rhetoric, an ex-wife - not common in Japanese politics - and what seems to be a genuine passion for just the kind of free-market, tough-medicine reforms that Japan desperately needs after ten years in the economic...
...other side, Raad resents the attempt to turn Ibrahim into a political weapon. At a rally staged in Ramallah by the Palestinian Authority, he speaks harsh words to his hosts and the crowd: "If you want to find someone to blame for my grandson's death, look further than the soldier who was at the checkpoint that night, look in the mirror, as well. Look at yourself and the Authority, who've negotiated our birthright...
...main battleground of the election campaign. Though Barak went further than any other Israeli leader in offering concessions to the Palestinians, it is Sharon whose campaign jingle says he will bring peace. In his television spots, Sharon cuddles a lamb on his Negev farm and lovingly lifts his grandson into his arms as the sun sets over his wheat fields. Says Yossi Beilin, Barak's Justice Minister: "Sharon prefers the image of Grandma, rather than the reality of the wolf...
...plenty of flak-catching time as he attempts to deliver on Bush's claims that his administration would have an energy policy where the Clinton administration had none. First up: OPEC rumblings about production cuts, in which it may or may not help Abraham that he is the grandson of Lebanese immigrants. (Probably...
...thesis on Nietzsche. But as the leading Islamic thinker among Europe's second- and third-generation Muslim immigrants, the Geneva-based university lecturer also inspires a good deal of mistrust--from both Arab Muslims for his Western sensibility and Westerners for his controversial Islamic roots. Ramadan, 38, is the grandson of Hassan al-Banna, founder, in 1928, of the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamic revival movement that spread from Egypt throughout the Arab world, criticizing Western decadence and advocating a return to Muslim values. Yet Ramadan says, "I'm a European who has grown up here. I don't deny...