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Our critic praised Mr. Jackman’s “ardent delivery, embracing stage presence and canny selection of music.”

An ardent Japanese nationalist, Takaichi was born in Nara, a prefecture famous for the sacred deer that draw thousands of tourists to its principal city each year.

But instead in Takaichi it picked an ardent Japanese nationalist who embraces debt-fueled government spending, a policy mix the party rejected twice when she stood for the leadership on two previous occasions.

As an ardent lover of liège waffles, I was elated — no, ecstatic — when TJ’s first dropped its Brioche Style Liège Waffles.

In addition to his crypto chops and avowed support for constitutional originalism, he has been an ardent defender of religious liberty and an opponent of affirmative action.