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...both American and Japanese commentators picked up on a remark by Prime Minister - in-waiting Yukio Hatoyama that there needed to be more "balance" in the U.S.-Japan relationship, read an article in which Hatoyama criticized the U.S. and wondered about the solidity of the alliance between Tokyo and Washington. Then Hatoyama called U.S. President Barack Obama and told him that of course - of course! - the alliance was the bedrock of Japanese foreign policy, and everyone relaxed...
...Washington A Full Plate on Capitol Hill Members of Congress returned to a busy legislative session Sept. 8 following their summer recess. Their top priority: health-care reform, an issue lawmakers heard an earful about during raucous town-hall meetings in August. The key items this fall...
...above all, the president’s careful choice of words reflects a hard truth about his audience: In many ways Americans are beginning to remember the imperatives of confronting social problems together, but we’re unsure of the role Washington should play...
...Even though there is now a wide public consensus that a universal health-insurance bill should pass, there seems to be little faith in the ability of Washington to be the vehicle of change. We can attribute much of this to two phenomena: classic, philosophical mistrust in the government and the financial firepower of special-interest lobbies...
...doing quite gracefully what many during the campaign feared he could not: He is playing the savvy realist, and not only in terms of maneuvering legislation. The president’s approach may produce an imperfect bill—but it is more likely to return trust in Washington than a stubborn strategy that would produce no bill...