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...everything from the minimum wage to how to give the European Union more heft, Royal, who turns 53 this month, was seen on a ferry boat, on a live TV interview and at a posh portside restaurant. "As the leader of the race, it's not her job to bat around ideas with the challengers," explained Malek Boutih, a member of the party's National Secretariat. "She has to concentrate her power for the battle ahead against the right." Many are keen to remind her that it isn't yet her battle to lead. Party members will not choose their...
Franzen is also working on a new novel. It's poor form to grill a writer about a work in progress, but I do it anyway, and he throws me a few cryptic crumbs. "The deep ecologists like to say that nature bats last," he says. "Whenever anyone is trying to say, mankind is smarter than nature ... we are of nature. And nature does therefore always bat last." So something political? "Certainly that's another thing I've been doing over the past five years. Being upset over the state of American politics...
...grand jury's term expired last week without an indictment of Barry Bonds. But prosecutors are still investigating the slugger's alleged steroid use, tax evasion and perjury. They go to bat before a new grand jury this week...
...OTTAWA GOES TO BAT...
OTTAWA GOES TO BAT...