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...party may have been called Conservative, but she was in truth one of the most radical leaders Britain has ever had. Thatcher could not abide the cozy and mildly corrupt arrangements that - as she saw it - had condemned post-1945 Britain to a managed decline, and was determined to blow them up. As one of her more waspish M.P.s once said, Thatcher could not see an institution without "hitting it with her handbag." But she never understood that once you removed the need to show deference to any institution - the BBC, the labor unions, the professions - you had undermined them...
While the ugly fact of global warming may strike a blow to our self-esteem as a species, you have put together a guide to keep us from descending into negative, cynical despair [April 9]. This roll-up-our-sleeves attitude may yet find America at its best. And thank you for keeping this overarching issue from political partisanship. Global warming is bigger than Al Gore, the Democrats and the Republicans. It is larger than...
...calamity that launched a thousand Ring of Fire jokes: Johnny Cash's 13,880-sq.-ft. lakeside house has burned down. It's a loss to music history and a blow to the renovation plans of the house's new owner--the Bee Gees' Barry Gibb. But Cash's neighbor, Oak Ridge Boys singer Richard Sterban, sees a higher power behind the disaster, telling the AP, "Maybe it's the good Lord's way to make sure that it was only Johnny's house." SCORE...
...Keith Richards has never been known for mainstream values, but he is a family man of sorts: he told NME magazine that he snorted the ashes of his dead father. Quoth Richards: "I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow." Trying to rehab Richards' rep, a spokesman later called it a joke. SCORE...
...several jams after giving up six hits and six walks in the game.“He’s one of those guys who when things don’t go well...he doesn’t come out saying I’m going to blow it by people here,” Walsh said. “He’s got a lot of good composure on the mound.”Sophomore Adam Cole came in on relief duty in the eighth and threw two scoreless innings to put the Cornell away. According to Walsh...