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...shirts tucked in or his penchant for sounding offensive when he means to be provocative. Whether you like Summers or not (and I do, from my limited encounters with him), he always seemed to be making himself the story. Sometimes it was deliberate, as with the hiring of Tony Blair??s former press spokeswoman and ostentatious displays of his speeches on Harvard’s official website. But more often it seemed to be unconscious, like the people we all know who keep getting into embarrassing scrapes until you eventually realize that it’s their...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bok to the Future | 3/1/2006 | See Source »

...leadership. Never explicitly advancing a political or moral agenda in his fiction, Hollinghurst nonetheless has plenty to say about real-life politics then and now. The ’80s saw a “sexualized idolatry of Mrs. Thatcher,” and while Tony Blair??s victory in 1997 finally offered “relief from the Tories” by his liberal Labour party, Blair??s record has become only “a crushing disappointment and a cruel disabusing.”However incensed the armchair, I can’t imagine...

Author: By Laura E. Kolbe, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gay Brit Draws 'Line' | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

Berwick played an important role in helping Prime Minister Tony Blair??s Labour Party develop a plan to improve the NHS—especially through its “Modernisation Plan” for the U.K.’s health care system...

Author: By Daniel J. T. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Health Expert Knighted | 7/22/2005 | See Source »

...deaths which the huge metropolis has so easily absorbed. As the process of identifying the dead begins, it remains to be seen what political consequences the attack will have in Great Britain and Europe. The bombs exploded at a moment of great triumph for Britain: the last months saw Blair??s sweeping reelection, a solidly performing British economy, the beginning of the British presidency of the European Union, the G8 summit at Gleneagles, and finally, the announcement of the 2012 London Olympics. Commentators wonder whether the attacks will afford the mandate for invasive legislation parallel...

Author: By Alexander Bevilacqua, | Title: Amid Bloodshed, Resilience | 7/15/2005 | See Source »

Thomas Wright, also a research fellow at the Belfer Center, said he was pleased by Blair??s likely victory...

Author: By Javier C. Hernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Watch UK Elections | 5/6/2005 | See Source »

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