Hatoyama Retracts His Words about Prime Minister

ハトヤマさんがまたもや前言を撤回した。首相を「ペテン師」呼ばわりしたことを、「今求められているのは冷静な心だ。私も一時、冷静さを欠いた発言をしてしまい、大変ご無礼をした」（読売電子版） 、「今我々に求められているのは冷静な心だ。私も一時、冷静さを欠いた発言をしてしまい、大変ご無礼したことを皆さんにおわびしたい」（毎日電子版）だと。本当なら今は一民間人のはずなのに。美しさも潔さも感じさせない人だ。

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The renovation work that has been going on upstairs now quietened down somewhat though I found a leak from the ceiling of the common corridor last night.

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My second reading of “Demons” has gone into “Part Two: Filibusters. A Fatal Meeting.” “Night,” where a meeting of Pyotr Stepanovich Verkhovensky and Nikolai Vsevolodovich Stavrogin takes place and Kirillov explains himself and also Stavrogin goes to see Shatov to ascertain his attitude, and “Night (Continued),” in which Marya Timofeevna Lebyadkin talks about her prince, can be considered two climaxes of the story.