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Fact of the Week

**Fact of the Week**
Earlier this month, the top aide to Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi told the press that Japan was considering building up to 3,000 nuclear weapons. Yasuo Fukada's comments would be notable in and of themselves, but other Japanese politicans have been calling for a military buildup for months. The jury is still out about whether building nuclear weapons would make Japan part of the "axis of evil" or whether it would join India, Israel, and Pakistan as part of the "axis of good nuclear proliferators." Sources: International Herald-Tribune, 15 April 2002; New York Times, 9 June 2002.

**This week's columns**
Paul Corrigan is not writing this week.	Profiles in Stupidity Tim Francis-Wright The latest febrile notion of Boston Globe house conservative Jeff Jacoby is that racial and ethnic profiling is the only way to stop airplane hijackers. Go to article!

Healing the Accounting Industry: It's clear to everyone but the accountants that accounting firms cannot police themselves (Scott Bernard Nelson, Boston Globe).
Our Son, the Rebel: Israel's nuclear whistleblower, imprisoned for 16 years, remains defiant (Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian).
They Come Here to Live, and if God Wills it, To Die: Jewish settlers have many reasons to stay in the West Bank (Peter Beaumont, The Observer).
The Emperor of Greed: Gary Winnock, with the help of his bankers, turned Global Crossing into his personal cash cow (Julie Creswell and Nomi Prins, Fortune).
Palestinian Elections Now: Palestinians must seize an opportunity in the midst of chaos to effect real reform (Edward Said, Al-Ahram Weekly).
Restorative Justice: The double standard between white-collar crime and street crime has got to go (Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman, Eat the State).

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