Word: blaire
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...British and Irish leaders, who, with a Wednesday deadline looming, on Tuesday entered a second day of make-or-break crisis talks on Northern Ireland?s future. "We?ve got to know that the gun will be taken out of Northern Irish politics," said Britain?s Prime Minister Tony Blair. "People will neither understand nor forgive if we don?t make this thing work... We are going to sort it out." At issue is the Unionist refusal to allow Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, into the territory?s new local government structure until...
...TONY BLAIR Brit P.M. loses big at Euro polls; good war didn't help. Bush Sr. could have told him that
...Tony Blair, British Prime Minister White Knight, Thinker, Crowd-Pleaser, Difference-Splitter...
...Last week the alliance found itself in a new muddle as various capitals sent out contradictory messages. German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder called the use of ground troops "unthinkable" and pledged to block any alliance combat on land. From London came the opposite, a steady drumbeat of demands by the Blair government to start assembling a ground force that could go into Kosovo even without agreement from Milosevic. Long after the threat might have spooked the Serbian leader, Clinton for the first time last week reserved the right to send in ground troops. Two days later, NATO Commander Clark visited...
Perhaps what truly separates us from the British even now, in the era of Tony Blair's fox-hunting-be-damned Cool Britannia, is the permeability of our show-business class. While the British still seem to require that their actors study Marlowe at Cambridge and enunciate their words in the manner of those listed in Burke's Peerage, we live in a country where Tony Danza might--and does--turn up in The Iceman Cometh. By the restrictive standards of her homeland, then, British actress Anna Friel, 22, currently making her theatrical debut in the hit Broadway play Closer...