Word: australian
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...Naomi Watts' dress designer, Escada, revealed which of the following previously unknown facts about the Australian star in an Oscar- day press release...
Glee abounds on the Labor side of Australian politics. The Opposition is high on a bubble of sparkling opinion polls. Bring on the election! Party leader Kevin Rudd speaks and moves with the authority of an alternative Prime Minister, something his folk have not heard and seen for some time. Last week in Canberra, P.M. John Howard delivered a talk called "Building Prosperity: The Challenge of Economic Management." Same night, same city, Rudd gave a speech on "Prosperity Beyond the Mining Boom" to a business lobby group. In the printed drafts, Rudd's speech is more tightly spaced...
...just as likely to think of the new entrants as future converts to the Howard doctrine. There is a sharp whiff of Shanghai exuberance around Labor. Just as in China's stock exchanges, the local political market will eventually turn to reflect fundamental laws. The Australian electorate is ultimately conservative. Issues such as the war in Iraq and the five-year Guant?namo incarceration of David Hicks may be hurting Howard now, but they're not potent enough to kill his government in a real election, expected in the spring. In any case, the almost pathologically cautious Howard will start executing...
...they think about words like "prosperity" and "future." Unemployment is at 4.5%; inflation seems to be in check, but another rise in interest rates is still possible. "Our economy is not a bunch of abstract statistics," Howard told his Menzies Research Centre audience on Feb. 27. "It governs every Australian's ability to handle the pressures of daily life and to give their children a better life." That's the pitch Australian voters-and the ambitious people of Bennelong-will be hearing until the polls close on election night...
...Ivory Tower, Harvard’s soap opera.But, she says, a part of her will always wonder: “What if?”.“It’s almost depressing,” she says. “I watch tennis tournaments like the Australian Open and see someone like Lucy Safarova make it to the quarterfinals. I played her when I was like 15 or 16. I sprained my ankle and I still beat her! It’s depressing to see players I’ve played and beaten before up there. I feel...