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		<title>DPJ victory in Japan&#8217;s election key moment, but unlikely to bring great policy change</title>
		<description>In 1955, Japan had been a sovereign state for three years and a democracy for nine. The nation had not yet escaped the wake of the Second World War, and its people had only just begun to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives.

That year, Japan’s two largest conservative ...</description>
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		<title>Risky Selection: What does competition in the health sector really mean?</title>
		<description>Much of the health care debate over the past couple of weeks has been fueled by the possibility that Obama would drop the so-called “public option,” and allow it to be replaced with a co-operative.  Like many aspects of the debate over health reform, the “public option” has been fiercely ...</description>
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		<title>What is really at stake in the health care debate: an ongoing series</title>
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You wouldn’t know it from the swastikas and the shouting, but there really are genuine issues at stake in the American health care debate. Because of all the noise, and because of fundamental misunderstandings on both sides, many of the most important issues have not even been discussed. Over the ...</description>
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		<title>Mad Money: Profits, not CRA, drove the sub-prime debacle</title>
		<description> We have all heard about how the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) is responsible for the surge in sub-prime lending, and therefore, extrapolating a touch, the financial crisis of 2008. The Act, originally passed in 1977, encourages banks to loan to lower-income and riskier borrowers who might not qualify for ...</description>
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		<title>The Decadence of the Elite</title>
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Just as the swine flu episode has begun to wind down, Mexican elites have been seized by another contagion: bloodying each other on the front pages of the newspapers. Actually, the target of most of the attacks has been Carlos Salinas, Mexico’s president between 1988 and 1994, a man already ...</description>
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		<title>Rethinking David and Goliath</title>
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The news media failed to accurately and objectively evaluate the conflict between Russia and Georgia this past summer (2008), and have done little to ease lingering tension. To be certain, the story was not ‘missed,’ coverage of the assault littered news programs. However, half of the story has bee ‘neglected.’
This ...</description>
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		<title>Fifteen Years After The Zapatistas</title>
		<description>Last Friday, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard sponsored a conference to reflect on the fifteen years that have transpired since the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas. The conference featured academics from both Mexico and the United States. It attempted to describe and debate the nature of ...</description>
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		<title>Mr. Obama’s Pitch to NATO</title>
		<description>By Guest Authors Michael Barton and Gabriel C. Lajeunesse

General David Petraeus testified last week that militant extremists in Pakistan could "literally take down their state" if left unchallenged. Meanwhile, suicide bombers continued to strike unabated in Afghanistan, even as the international community committed their support to the fledgling democracy at ...</description>
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		<title>Moscow Mogadishu</title>
		<description>Paul Klebnikov   was the American-born editor of the Russian edition of Forbes Magazine. Klebnikov made his reputation as a investigative journalist looking into the business dealings of high-level Russian politicians and aspiring oligarchs. On July 9, 2004 Klebnikov was gunned down on the streets of Moscow in apparent retaliation for ...</description>
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		<title>Right to Rights</title>
		<description> Last week, Mexico’s Supreme Court received a preliminary report by a special investigative arm of the tribunal that had been charged with looking into human rights violations in Oaxaca. The special investigation had been requested by the Mexican legislature after the violent conflict between the southern state’s governor and ...</description>
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