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...enabled Tory leader David Cameron, 41, to unite his fractious party. Traditionalists are outraged by his efforts to rebrand the Conservatives as a more caring, green-tinged party. The Tory conference, which starts on Sept. 30 in Blackpool, a resort in northern England, promises the internecine warfare so conspicuously absent at Labour's jamboree...
Faust will add an element absent from previous Harvard presidential installations—African drumming and a performance by Sangeet, a Harvard College South Asian music group—O’Neill added...
...fitness sites that logged the greatest swell in visits this month was the official website for Biggest Loser's tough-love trainer, Jillian Michaels, one of three personal trainers featured on the show. Michaels, who was absent last season from the U.S. version of the show (other countries, including Australia and England, have their own versions), hosts the 11th most visited site in the wellness category, capturing more than 2% of all visits. Michaels' site is two places ahead of the official Biggest Loser Club site, which accounts for 1.5% of all visits to the category...
...Musharraf has become so vulnerable that even an opposition figure who has long been absent poses a serious threat. Now in exile in Jeddah, where Saudi authorities have him under virtual house arrest, the 57-year-old Sharif continues to haunt Musharraf, 64. His return to Pakistan, though brief, has effectively changed the country's power equation. In the immediate aftermath of Sharif's deportation, public reaction was muted. But there is a growing sense of a nation spoiling for a fight. The day after Sharif's failed comeback from exile, his political party, the Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PMLN...
...claimed that the lobby played a critical role in taking the U.S. to war with Iraq but never mentioned the role of the Sept. 11 attacks in any part of the piece. In the book, the authors write that “the war would probably not have occurred absent the September 11 attacks,” a position they first took in the July/August 2006 issue of Foreign Policy magazine...