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...fact, to date, I have traveled to Norway, Albion (in the hills beyond Rome), Peru, and Moscow—towns all found within the gentrified, yokel vacationland of Maine. As I’m more or less the epitome of the cash-strapped traveler—I’m working at a summer camp, after all—living in a place called Belgrade no less (if you get past the unexploded shells…), I need to do most things on the cheap...
...this Scotsman's watch, the British economy has outperformed most of its rivals in the rich world, and the British people have seen the sort of steady, noninflationary growth in prosperity that not so long ago seemed to be the birthright of Germans, French - of everyone, in fact, but Albion's hordes. You can say that Brown was lucky, because he inherited the impact of Margaret Thatcher's economic reforms - in particular, severely weakened trade unions and a deregulated labor market. But great leaders make their own luck. By establishing a stable macroeconomic policy framework, by maintaining tight control...
DIED. ROBERT TEETER, 65, gentlemanly but tough G.O.P. pollster; of cancer; in Ann Arbor, Mich. After a stint coaching football at his alma mater, Albion College, he helped guide the campaigns of four Republican Presidents, beginning with Richard Nixon in 1968. A pioneer in the use of focus groups and daily tracking polls, he proposed Dan Quayle as former President Bush's running mate in 1988. Four years later, as the team's campaign chair-man, he drew much of the blame for its failed re-election bid from critics who said he had underestimated the strength of rival Patrick...
...expands to 25 members, without sapping core national prerogatives to set tax rates and foreign and defense policy. But he also forecast dire results if Britain balked, leaving it isolated on Europe's margins, even tempting the rest of the E.U. countries to wash their hands of pesky Albion and go off on their own. He claimed this was exactly what the Tories wanted: to use the vote as a way of forcing a constitutional crisis that would allow them to pry the U.K. out of the E.U. and into some kind of associate membership. But Howard resisted Blair...
JULY 7 CHAD KEITH RANK: Specialist * AGE 21* Albion...