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...this lack of respect may come from the recent tendency of Carolina to look outward for its leaders. While for most of its history, the leaders of Carolina were nearly always North Carolinians and Carolina graduates, this pattern has recently shifted—neither Carolina’s current chancellor nor its provost had spent any substantial time in Chapel Hill before their selection. Such a change means that Carolina’s administrators never have gotten the chance to see the uniqueness of the town and may only see the town as a hindrance to their expansion plans...
...Publicly, the big dogs of European integration dismissed the Irish upset as no big deal. The French assembly quickly backed the Nice Treaty last week 407-27, with 113 abstentions. At a summit in Freiberg, French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder pledged to work for Nice's ratification "according to the existing timetable and without any delay...
...seems to have become muted, with Angela Merkel, the CDU leader, announcing a nuanced change to her party's outright opposition to immigration to allow a small number of temporary visas to help industry fill its job vacancies. But this is indeed a minor shift: when the government of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder appealed last month for a bipartisan consensus on immigration so that it won't become an issue in next year's parliamentary election, the CDU rejected the plea...
...Tories' front bench has not been particularly impressive since the drubbing of 1997. Former Chancellor Ken Clarke, now a backbencher and probably the country's most popular Tory, would be the obvious choice. Yet he remains a committed pro-European in a party that is deeply Euro-skeptic. Shadow home secretary Ann Widdecombe may galvanize the grass roots, but she is on the right of a party already criticized for moving too far in that direction. Other possible contenders, such as shadow defence secretary Iain Duncan Smith, a former soldier, are relatively unknown to voters at large...
...bookmakers' favorite, former Defence Secretary and now shadow chancellor Michael Portillo, may also have a problem: he has admitted to homosexual experiences as a young man, a history that does not sit lightly with some Conservatives. Portillo lost his seat in 1997, regained one in a by-election and meanwhile moved from the party's right to its left. Says John Curtice, professor of politics at Strathclyde University: "Under Portillo, I imagine, the party would take a much more liberal direction on social issues, and some of us would argue that this is the journey the party has to take...