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LONDON: Evidence that just about everyone is jumping on the Tony Blair bandwagon as Thursday's elections near: The Financial Times, long a Conservative Party supporter, has given a reluctant endorsement to the Labour Party candidate. Bashing Prime Minister John Major for his lack of coherent policies toward the European Union, the paper said Blair was "the obvious answer" to produce a "constructive engagement" with Europe. The endorsement was particularly galling to Major, since both candidates take essentially the same position on the EU. The difference is mainly in mood: While Blair sounds notes of hope and confidence, Major...
...here. But to say that Harvard students are sexually repressed is platitudinous. For many years, Harvard's tireless cadre of dilettantish social critics and pseudo-intellectual newspaper columnists have decried the lack of "healthy" sexual activity at the College. Even the venerable New York Times jumped on the bandwagon. In a recent article on megatrends in college dating, the Times pointed to the "atrophied social skills" of students at elite universities...
Maybe I was a little too fast to jump on the "trash the Coop" bandwagon. I, who once so proudly declared my nonmembership in the Coop, now toy with the idea of joining. Mo Shepard over at Book Tech proclaimed that books are "Five percent of total education cost, and 80 percent of total education." How many classes do I take because of the syllabus, in spite of the professor's droning tone.... I believe. Maybe books are expensive, maybe they could shave off a few dollars here and there, but in the face of copyright lawsuits and the Harvard...
...idea sounds fine, to a point. But investors might want to look at the precedents in another popular technology--television--before jumping on the freeservice bandwagon...
...jump on the bandwagon of antigovernment rhetoric. The result of the election shows that people do want the government to protect their basic rights and provide services...