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Japan must shake off US-style globalization
The likely next prime minister outlines his hopes for a more Asia-focused Japan.
By Yukio Hatoyama
from the August 19, 2009 edition

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TOKYO – In the post-cold war period, Japan has been continually buffeted by the winds of market fundamentalism in a US-led movement that is more usually [...]

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Required reading for any student of the global financial markets. Read all 477 pages here

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BP lobbied Jack Straw before he changed mind over Lockerbie bomber
Sep 4th, 2009 by John Donovan.
Tom Baldwin and Philip Webster
Jack Straw was personally lobbied by BP over Britain’s prisoner transfer agreement with Libya just before he abandoned efforts to exclude the Lockerbie
bomber from the deal.
The Times has learnt that the Justice Secretary took two telephone [...]

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Why Craigslist Is Such a Mess
By Gary Wolf08.24.09

Craigslist founder Craig Newmark. Photo: PLATON

The Internet’s great promise is to make the world’s information universally accessible and useful. So how come when you arrive at the most popular dating site in the US you [...]

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