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The Japanese educational system , established during the Allied occupation after World War II , is one of the most comprehensive and effective in the world . The rivers are generally unsuited for navigation ( only two , the Ishikari and the Shinano , are over 200 mi / 322 km long ) , and railroads and ships along the coast are the chief means of transportation . Some are full-fledged arenas enclosed in buildings , he said , and others are little more than " brush pits , " set up in rural clearings for smaller crowds.Goodwin played down the Latino connection , noting that the Mecklenburg location " was a Latino pit , but there are Caucasian pits as well . His remarks were reported in the Gannett Co. ' s Journal-News.The court 's decision to halt the recount of Florida 's disputed election results , thus giving Bush the state 's electoral votes , has been heavily criticized as an example of the court overstepping its bounds and , worse , being driven by politics.Rather than let the recount take place and leave state officials and possibly Congress to determine the outcome of the election , the court 's five conservative justices decided to intervene.They eventually overturned a ruling of the Florida Supreme Court and halted the recount of the state 's disputed election results 36 days after the voting . Leggett , he said , will consider comments from the Planning Board and the public , but , " all things being equal , we're likely to be going where we're going now . " By Karin BrulliardSunday , March 12 , 2006 ; Page W08On a cold and brilliant fall morning , Daniel Rodriguez is standing beside a 7-Eleven in Woodbridge , the brim of his Cincinnati Reds baseball cap pulled down low over his wide-set eyes . " I had seen what had been done to people whom I had the utmost regard for in terms of their nominations being stalled , or things said about them that I thought were totally unjustified . " Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. spoke to his fellow members of the Federalist Society , a coalition of conservative lawyers and legal scholars who have gone from rebel outsiders to Washington insiders - - the group drew 1,500 people to its annual banquet and warranted appearances by administration leaders from Vice President Cheney on down.Roberts 's turn on the stage was the most complete , and it showed that his sure-footed performance in his confirmation hearings , where he left even senators opposed to his conservative philosophy aglow , was no fluke.He has a politician 's gift for appearing open while answering only the questions he wants to answer , along with an almost over-the-top humility about being , at 51 , the youngest chief justice since John Marshall , and he offers a reassuring middle ground between those worried about threats to judicial independence and those alarmed by activist judges.He provided a little something for everyone . Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. was interviewed before a crowd of 3,000 last Monday night at the University of Miami , and his telegenic message of moderation was then broadcast to the nation on ABC 's " Nightline . BEIJING - - A U.S. Treasury envoy who on Wednesday wrapped up two days of talks with North Korean officials said his agency 's suspicions of illegal financial activity involving bank accounts linked to the communist nation were accurate.Deputy Assistant Treasury Secretary Daniel Glaser said that he went over bank information of 50 account holders from the Macao-based Banco Delta Asia with his North Korean counterparts in Beijing , adding that U.S. concerns that the bank was being used for money-laundering purposes had " been vindicated " by the discussions . " He gave the scholars caught up in the debate about his affection for legal minimalism a bit more to chew on : " If you're going up a list of what virtues are important when you're deciding a Supreme Court opinion , issuing an opinion , deciding a case , I have to say that I think boldness is going to be closer to the bottom and not the top . A University of Florida researcher and his colleagues find that stepchildren receive far less help with their college expenses if they are from a household with a stepmother and somewhat less assistance in households with a stepfather . The front-runner for the library is Southern Methodist University in Dallas , her alma mater.Miers , who is single , said she plans to rest and spend time in Dallas with friends and family , including her 92-year-old mother . This version has been corrected.Dutch Citizen Pleads Not Guilty to Terrorism ChargesMan Accused in Iraq Bombings Is First Alleged Insurgent Prosecuted in U.S. Criminal CourtsBy Dan EggenWashington Post Staff WriterTuesday , January 30 , 2007 ; A04A Dutch national born in Iraq pleaded not guilty to terrorism charges in federal court yesterday , marking the start of the first U.S. criminal prosecution of an alleged Iraqi insurgent.Wesam al-Delaema , 33 , is charged with four counts of conspiracy and two other crimes for allegedly belonging to a group called " Mujaheddin From Fallujah , " which constructed and deployed roadside bombs aimed at U.S. forces in Iraq . The North also has been accused of attempting to earn hard currency through the illegal drug trade and the counterfeiting of U.S. currency ; a North Korean cargo ship was seized by Australia in 2003 after the crew was observed unloading heroin . With the jail board 's approval , the matter now comes before the Board of County Supervisors , and Chairman Corey A. Stewart ( R ) has already expressed his support.On Thursday , a day after the jail board voted , Stewart called a news conference to announce that he would favor incorporating the cost of the program into the fiscal 2008 budget , which is being drawn up . " Well , I guess we're not going to be surprising them today , " he says , smirking . the Yamato clan , whose original home was apparently in Kyushu , had settled in the vicinity of modern Kyoto and had established a loose control over the other clans of central and W Japan , laying the foundation of the Japanese state . We said we were going to move to resolve this in a practical way , and that 's precisely what we're doing . that we're going to be in a kind of bog of mixtures of constitutional law , unclear Oregon state law , not certain exactly what was meant by whom in the context of the trial , et cetera , " said Justice Stephen G. Breyer , who voted in favor of the court 's previous decisions limiting punitive damages.Justices Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg , who dissented from those decisions , made similar points , as did Justice David H. Souter.Compensatory damages are usually awarded to compensate for economic losses or pain and suffering . Our citizens do n't much care which side of the aisle we sit on - - as long as we are willing to cross that aisle when there is work to be done . Most daimyo were in debt to the merchants , and discontent was rife among impoverished but ambitious samurai .