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Thursday, March 8, 2012 Last Update: 5:27 PM ET

Japan Idles Its Nuclear Power Industry and Feels the Loss

All but two of Japan’s 54 commercial reactors have been idled since the nuclear disaster a year ago, after the earthquake and tsunami, and it is not clear when they can be restarted.

The Ohi nuclear plant was not damaged by the earthquake or tsunami but sits idled because of a standoff caused by a legal quirk: Japanese law requires reactors to be shut down every 13 months for routine checkups and the plant’s operator has been unable to restart them because of opposition from local residents.
Kuni Takahashi for The New York Times

Syrian Minister Appears to Defect and Join Opposition

A man identifying himself as the deputy oil minister, Abdo Hussameldin, appeared in a video posted to YouTube on Wednesday, and said he had left his post.

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Campaign 2012

Democrats Warm to Obama as a Campaign Ally

On Capitol Hill, Democrats have begun to mention President Obama more often and to publicly back his proposals.

Opposition Wins a Bit of Power in Moscow

Inspired by protests against President Vladimir V. Putin, hundreds of young Muscovites for the first time ran in municipal elections and dozens won.

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U.S. Pressing Publishers to Alter E-Book Price Policy

The Justice Department has spent months investigating pricing collusion between Apple and e-book publishers.

The Caucus
House Backs Aid to Small Businesses

The House approved a bill that could help create jobs in an effort to polish Congress’s image as Election Day nears.

Television Review | ‘Game Change’
Trying to Train and Contain a Candidate

Julianne Moore’s portrayal of Sarah Palin in the engaging HBO docudrama “Game Change” is a sharp-edged but not unsympathetic portrait of a flawed heroine.

Greece Confident of Bond Swap Approval

Greece looked certain to clinch its landmark debt swap with private lenders that would end up saving the country from default.

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