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...moved at least 20 times as a kid, his parents often struggling with the rent. In junior high, he was expelled for fighting and truancy. After dropping out, he learned to box ("Rifle Right," they called him), and during World War II he shuttled planes across the Atlantic for Britain's Royal Air Force. Back in California, he bought and sold refurbished aircraft and started an air service ferrying gamblers from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. On layovers in Vegas he took an interest in gambling, especially craps, and parlayed the proceeds from various ventures into real estate and casinos...
...listened and learned" from voters acknowledged their tepid endorsement. Labour's share of the vote was the smallest of any government ever, and its new parliamentary majority of 66 M.P.s is a vertiginous plunge from the 167 majority it secured in 2001. Within hours of the polls closing, Britain's newspapers were discussing, in their usual feverish way, how long Blair would remain as Prime Minister...
...have policy differences. Brown, though a supporter of business and leery of tax rates that might drive the wealthy out of Britain, is considered more left-wing, or "Old Labour." He has more passion for redistributing money to the poorest than Blair, and is concerned that injecting more choice into public services will lead to unacceptably different standards of quality. But these disputes have always been "pretty subtle - the sort of thing you have to be a senior civil servant or a think-tank person to put your finger on," says Sunder Katwala, general secretary of the Fabian Society...
...Things that used to be formally done there will now be moved to the ladies and gentlemen in the field," says Fred McNeese, IBM's spokesman in Paris. "It's a pretty dramatic management shift for us in Europe." McNeese insists that the cuts will not be centered in Britain, where worker compensation is less costly than on the Continent. The firm says the layoffs are part of its long-term strategy to "get closer to the client," and unrelated to the announcement last week that first-quarter sales in Europe and Japan were down 5%. And some analysts...
...ELECTED. TONY BLAIR, 52, to a third term as Prime Minister of Britain, the first time the Labour Party has won three consecutive elections; in London. But in a sign of how deeply Blair's support for the Iraq war has weakened him politically, his party's majority in the House of Commons fell from 161 to 66. "I have listened, and I have learned," Blair said...