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...songstress appears to have kept her promise. Last week, at age 92, Lynn became the oldest artist to top the British charts with We'll Meet Again - The Very Best of Vera Lynn, an album featuring 24 songs that evoke wartime Britain. Lynn, an East London plumber's daughter who went on to be known as the "Forces' Sweetheart," spoke with TIME about her music's resurgence 70 years later. (See the top-selling albums and singles...
...There was a lot of hype surrounding the release of remastered Beatles albums in Britain recently, and journalists predicted that the group would seize the top spot. Are you surprised that you stole their heat? Yes, of course I am. You know, they're still extremely popular with the young people. I never thought that I would share a hit parade with the Beatles. (See the top 10 things you didn't know about the Beatles...
...There is no such hope on the horizon for Italy's, France's and Britain's moderate left. They will have to reinvent themselves and recruit a wider clientele, as the Democrats in the U.S. did in 1992 and again in 2008. The Democrats put together a coalition not just of declining and disadvantaged groups - industrial workers and African Americans - but - also of rising forces like Hispanics, Asians, and well-to-do whites in the expanding service sector. But strategic repositioning - offering both honey and condensed milk - is easier in the Anglo-American two-party system that doesn't throw...
More painful to the Administration's sanctions effort, however, is the potential loss of Germany's support. Berlin is an active trading partner with Iran, and if it were to split with France, Britain and the U.S. on sanctions, it could render any new measures largely symbolic. Though they prefer unanimity, England and France have previously been willing to adopt new measures against Tehran without full E.U. agreement; Germany has resisted. Once again on the latest effort against Iran, Germany has indicated that it is unlikely to support new sanctions without the rest of the E.U., according to European...
...does, however, have a last-ditch move that it can make with France and Britain, or even alone. Legislators on Capitol Hill are preparing a tough bill that would impose sanctions on third-country companies that supply the gasoline imports on which Iran relies for about one-third of its consumption. House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Howard Berman, a California Democrat, has said he will mark up his bill next month. But the fewer allies that sign on for such tough sanctions, the more those sanctions are likely to hurt the U.S. rather than Iran...