Word: blaire
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Though friends report having seen the couple together at a party as recently as two days before the killing, Cummings' attorney, Blair Howard, says she had recently ended their relationship and lived in fear of him since. Police confirm that Cummings met with them a few weeks before the shooting. "I think she was scared to death," Howard says. When he met her in jail, he adds, Cummings had long scratches on her left arm and red marks on the right side of her face...
...defining moment, the British are looking to both their future King and the current head of government to draw the country into the modern era while finding a way to keep the kingdom united. In fact, this was a process that began well before the princess's death. Tony Blair campaigned as "new" Labour, and as a Minister puts it, "Modernize is one of Tony's favorite words." Having transformed the old-line left into a party of personal responsibility and community spirit, speaking the language of healing, empowerment and openness, he was ready to apply the same process...
During the preparations for Diana's funeral, when the nation demanded strong direction, the mediagenic Blair stepped in. His public footing was sure, indelibly linking the citizenry with the royals in the phrase people's princess. In the days before the funeral, he spoke out in defense of the royal family, calling criticism of it "unfair." He also worked unobtrusively inside the palace to bolster Charles, consulting several times with him to help devise a more populist event. The Blair forces suggested and implemented the loudspeaker system that allowed people on London's streets to hear the service inside Westminster...
From the day he was elected last May, Blair signaled his desire to focus his modernizing campaign on the Prince of Wales, whom he had first met in the late 1980s. The Prime Minister regarded the Prince as a renovation, not demolition, project. "There were serious contacts between the new government and [Charles] to rehabilitate him," says a government official. The rehab campaign even extended as far as working to gain popular support for the Prince's relationship with Camilla Parker Bowles, who reportedly met several times with minister without portfolio Peter Mandelson, one of Blair's chief spin doctors...
...TONY BLAIR His canny understanding of the public's grief will boost plans for political modernization...