Now struggling to survive, Crossroads finds itself not only cleaning up a financial mess but also exploring where it fits in today's cultural landscape.
The book includes some favorites, but also a whole mess of new material.
That assumes that Mr Fukuda will weather not just the budget fight, but also an almighty mess of lost records at the pensions agency and a defence-procurement scandal that looks about to claim a former defence minister, Fumio Kyuma.By the summer, though, Mr Fukuda, the "caretaker", may want to hang on longer.
Like the jumbled map of Australia on its front cover, the album is immediately recognisable but also a bit of a mess – as befits a record pieced together over three years of tinkering.
But Portland were also a mess.
Now it is a shoddy outfit, blocking change purely to weaken the government and discounting the national interest with even more zeal than the Beast of Bentonville discounts tomatoes.But this is also a mess of the government's making.
This diverse collection of products automated common processes but also made a mess.
"Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" was also a mess, but kindly folks in São Paulo, Lagos, Jakarta, and a hundred other places rescued it.
Not only was the Greek deficit twice as high as previously reported, but his country's finances were also a mess.
But the system that recruits legal temporary workers is also a mess.
