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...policies, like measures to increase home ownership and fight disorderly behavior. The economy is strong, and the MORI poll shows that people are getting more optimistic that Labour can deliver on its long-promised improvements in health and education. "The question for the Labour Party is whether it can aim for a Rooseveltian term of office," says Denis MacShane, Labour's Minister for Europe, referring to F.D.R.'s renewal of his Administration's energy and policies during his long presidency. But even as Labour eyes another four years in power, the contrast between Roosevelt's war and Blair...
...ever wish that you could procrastinate on thefacebook.com and AIM from anywhere in the College any time, bed, bath or beyond? Well you’re in luck; the College’s commendable plan to add wireless access points all over campus will give students a new freedom in computing...
...Profits, Jobs and Security, written by a team led by Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute in Snowmass, Colo., is one of the best analyses of energy policy yet produced. Lovins, who has been preaching the need for fuel efficiency for some 30 years, thinks big. His aim is to promote a set of policies that over the next two decades would save half the oil the U.S. uses, before moving to a hydrogen-based economy that dispenses with oil altogether (save for possible use as a fuel to produce hydrogen.) If that seems hopelessly Utopian, Lovins reminds...
...committees aim to examine issues similar to those investigated by the review’s original four committees last year...
...says, "but I was drunk, so they were kind of blurry and went by really fast." If her show sounds like a downer, it's not. Though she has never been the kind of comic to stack up one-liners, she manages, over two rambling hours, to take aim at the standard fodder--politicians, pets, audience members--in the same slightly exasperated and self-mocking tone that made her such a success in the 1990s when she played large auditoriums and had two HBO specials and (briefly) her own talk show...