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...House of Lords is feeling an intense squeeze from Blair’s influence, and surprisingly, the people and the press are coming to the aid of this archaic and arcane institution. Britain??s second chamber of Parliament has, under Blair’s tenure, undergone great changes, not that they did not see it coming: Blair campaigned back in 1997 on making the House of Lords more representative. To that end, in 1999 this sleepy and purely advisory body had all but 92 of its 750 hereditary members dismissed from service, ending the automatic right of hereditary...
Taylor was last in the heat going around the final turn, but she managed to finish with a flourish again, passing former U.S. Olympic Trial competitor Yvonne Harrison—now running for Puerto Rico—and Great Britain??s Sinead Dudgeon, who had beaten Taylor in the preliminaries...
...Posh” Spice, a.k.a. Victoria Beckham, raised a stink after her set of three $3,161 Louis Vuitton designer suitcases were stolen from Heathrow airport earlier this month. British Airways launched an investigation and, according to Britain??s Sunday Mirror, agreed to pay her 100,000 pounds after she had huffed...